“It’s not worth me having a long-life lightbulb”
UK – Death is a part of life for people over 95 years old, who mainly live day-to-day, concludes a rare study of
UK – Death is a part of life for people over 95 years old, who mainly live day-to-day, concludes a rare study of
In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears,
My father spent 10 days dying. He was 84 and he had lost his wife – my mother, whom he adored, and without whom he
‘Why do I light candles?” says Barbara. “I didn’t light them because you were coming. I light candles all the time, because when I
AUSTRALIA – Japan has the oldest population in the world and in the next 50 years it is set to shrink by 40 million, leading to its end-of-life industry booming. Almost all Japanese people get cremated and have their ashes put into family crypts in conventional looking cemeteries.
UK – Today the health select committee begins taking evidence for a new inquiry into end-of-life care. This comes after considerable public concern about the quality of care that people receive as they die, and six months after the controversial “Liverpool Care Pathway”
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.