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Please Share Your Best Tips to Heal from Death or Loss by Connie Bennett Healthy Living Professional

Posted Mon 26 Nov 2012 12:07pm Recently, as I shared here , my mom -- who passed away recently after a year-long battle with stage 4 lung cancer -- taught me how to die with grace, dignity and joie de vivre . Right now, to be honest with you, I'm not back to my usual effervescent self. I'm realizing that I need time to heal. So I'm explor ... Read on »

Grieving loss before death by Carol Bradley Bursack Posted Wed 13 Apr 2011 12:00am Many of us as adult children or spouses suffer from what is often called "the long good-bye." There may be some debate as to the appropriateness of that term, but there is little to debate in the fact that we who must witness our loved one slowly disappear, physically, mentally, or both, grieve. Yes, we grieve the fact that our loved ... Read on »

The Mental Health Place Blog: Grief and Loss - The Topic of Death is Often Ignored by Lisa K., MFT Patient Expert

Posted Tue 30 Dec 2008 10:34am (Kim E. Terry skillfully explores ways to help those grieving the loss of a loved one.) ----------------------- Losing someone is one of the most devastating experiences a person can go through. It does not typically get any easier after consecutive losses, and there is no way to be perfectly prepared for it even when notice is given prior ... Read on »

Grief and Loss: The Topic of Death is Often Ignored by Kim Terry, LPC by Lisa K., MFT Patient Expert

Posted Mon 13 Jul 2009 2:40pm Losing someone is one of the most devastating experiences a person can go through. It does not typically get any easier after consecutive losses, and there is no way to be perfectly prepared for it even when notice is given prior to death. Just as each person leaves this world in a different way, each [...] Related posts: Do You Need Other’s A ... Read on »

Reflections on Death, #1: Recycling of the Dead (An Excerpt from Death & Sex) by Chelsea Green Patient Expert

Posted Wed 04 Nov 2009 10:00pm The following is an excerpt from Death & Sex by Tyler Volk and Dorion Sagan. It has been adapted for the Web. From chapter 4: Recycling of the Dead When carbon ends its “lifetime” in the biosphere, it doesn’t stop being carbon. It merely passes into a deeper zone. One is reminded here of ancient myths that [...] Read on »

Yes, Brain Death Means You Are Really Dead! by Bob Aronson Patient Expert

Posted Wed 16 May 2012 8:16am Are brain dead patients really dead? That’s the question many people are asking because of stories circulated by irresponsible journalists, TV shows and movies who seek sensational plots and people who just refuse to acknowledge the facts. The simple answer to this question is, “Absolutely. If you’ve been declared brain dead by a qualifie ... Read on »

SUGAR SHOCK! Can Be Deadly: High Blood Sugar Triggers About 3.1 Million Deaths A Year, Researchers Find by Connie Bennett Healthy Living Professional

Posted Thu 18 Dec 2008 8:11pm Frequently putting yourself into SUGAR SHOCK! can be downright deadly. I'm not usually this blunt, but new research flat out shows that about 3.1 million people around the world are unnecessarily dying just because their blood sugar levels soar too high. What pains me is that these deaths are, by and large, unnecessary! What it comes down ... Read on »

Treating the Dead and Redefining Death by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted Mon 25 Aug 2008 3:17pm From Newsweek, an article about the science of resuscitation and how our understanding of death is changing . The particular quote that captured my attention: "But if the cells are still alive, why can't doctors revive someone who has been dead for an hour? Because once the cells have been without oxygen for more than five minutes, they die when ... Read on »

CDC Scientists Working to Halt Deadly Meningitis Outbreak–Number of Deaths Now at 15–FDA Needs More Money To Carry O by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted Mon 15 Oct 2012 3:22am This story seems to keep getting worse sadly and Tennessee is still the hardest hit state. At the CDC they are working hard to notify everyone who could have been exposed. Also the New York Times had some interesting information to add with their interviews with employees on safety and working conditions at the the New England Compounding Cent ... Read on »

Maggie's dead (or: How to explain a politician's death to your kids) by Maria Verivaki Patient Expert

Posted Tue 09 Apr 2013 10:04pm While driving my daughter to her basketball practice session this afternoon, we listened to the radio, as we always do in the car, the only place we listen to radio these days. A punk rock rhythm was beating out, interspersed with political statements voiced by what sounded like Arthur Scargill and Margaret Thatcher. The noise of the traffic ... Read on »