Thoughts Of Death

Your Thoughts on Death and Dying by Laura Y. Patient Expert

Posted Wed 15 Oct 2008 7:54am Here are the survey results for the question, "Are you comfortable with the issue of mortality?" My readers shared these thoughts. Feel free to add your own comments and perspectives below... 77.2% Yes, I accept death as a fact of life, my own and those I care about. I am comfortable discussing it, even when it is painful. Kind of dista ... Read on »

Thoughts on the death of David Foster Wallace-How to get Help by Susan .. Patient Expert

Posted Mon 17 Nov 2008 8:58pm September 7-13 was National Suicide Awareness Week. It went in with a bang, and out with a whimper—and a bang a day late. Most of the literary world is still rocking from the suicide of David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008, this past weekend. Wallace's magnum opus was Infinite Jest in the 90's, which set the mood for American Literature in the 90 ... Read on »

Final thoughts on the death of my friend Kevin Greim by Susan .. Patient Expert

Posted Mon 17 Nov 2008 8:58pm Monday night. It was past 11 o'clock, I was just watching the news, trying to wind down before I go to sleep. The phone rang. I would never get the phone after ten, but I noticed on caller ID that it was my friend G- and it must have been bad for him to call that late at night. I picked up the phone. "Susan", he said, his voice choking with ... Read on »

Thoughts on the Life and Death of Celebrities by Ruth K. Patient Expert

Posted Fri 26 Jun 2009 5:20pm The news event of the week will undoubtedly be the untimely death of Michael Jackson. I never listened to his music (other than in the movie Free Willy), never practiced his famous dance steps, and never took a picture of his wax likeness at Madame Tussaude's in New York City last year. But he was a child of my generation and his influence in popul ... Read on »

Random Thoughts XIV: Is the Death of Organic Upon Us? (Among Other Things) by Drea D. Healthy Living Professional

Posted Mon 16 Mar 2009 3:58pm check out this video and let me know what you think. It may seem far fetched but if anyone is knowledgable about Monstano, then this may be truer than you think. And I thought this was a "free" country! Here's another article I found that you maybe interested in. For those who don't know, Bikram Choudhury put a copyright ... Read on »

Death Thoughts by Dr. Richard Keller Medical Doctor

Posted Thu 23 Oct 2008 1:36pm Ah, the end of another week. Except they don’t really end, they just flow on. Weekend, weekday, the Coroner’s business flows on. The only difference is I’m not in the office very much on the week ends. Like the old joke so many folks like to tell me: “They’re just dying to meet you”. This week the young died when they ought not to have. The ... Read on »

Food for Thought: Are we looking at cancer just like they looked at the Black Death 700 years ago? by Doug Wallace Posted Sat 31 Mar 2012 5:47pm I don't wanna get too morbid in my "feel good blog", and I promise to end this piece on a positive note and some cool positive photography as always. But I had to write this piece since I just saw a show on the History Channel about the tragedy of the 14th century, the Black Death, also called The Plague. It seemed that during The P ... 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 »

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 »

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 »

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