Chel Saltin on the popularity of taxidermy
JAPAN – Housewife Reiko Wachi, 65, who lives in Kawasaki, poses for pictures as a photographer encourages her, saying, “Good smile. Very nice.” The photo session last month was planned by a Tokyo-based travel company, Club Tourism International Inc., with the goal of having
Atul Gawande’s current best-seller, Being Mortal, has touched a nerve regarding our medical system’s very poor handling of aging, life-altering illnesses, hospice, and palliative care. I caught up with Gawande after he delivered a public lecture on his book.
USA – More than a million times a year, a terminally ill patient in the United States is enrolled in hospice care. Each time, the family confronts a decision that, while critical, often must be made almost blindly: Which hospice to hire? Part of the “Business of Dying” series.
IRELAND – Ireland supposedly ‘does death well’. But a new survey suggests that it’s a modern taboo – and that end-of-life care in
Seventy-five. That’s how long I want to live: 75 years. This preference drives my daughters and my brothers crazy. My loving friends think I am crazy. They think that I can’t mean what I say; that I haven’t thought clearly about this, because there is so much in the world to see and do.
UK – How would you like to die, linguistically? When the lexicographers were compiling their citations for the Oxford English Dictionary, they came across this remarkable one, in a US graveyard: Caroline, wife of EJ Langston, born on March 23 1833. Passed out Dec 18 1867.