What does it actually feel like to die?
USA – “Do you want to know what will happen as your body starts shutting down?”
USA – “Do you want to know what will happen as your body starts shutting down?”
USA – Jennifer Hollis is a professional Music Thanatologist. Song has been shown to help ease suffering.
IRELAND – Author Dr Seamus O’Mahony strongly argues that modern medicine in acute hospitals ill-serves the dying.
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,
CHINA – A new business in Shanghai gives a startling simulation of what it’s like to be born and to die.
SWEDEN — The average number of funeral attendees is now about 24, down from 49 just three decades ago.
UK – New research has shown that sad songs can help people deal with the loss of a loved one.
USA – I was working in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) as a medical resident when I learned that my 89-year-old
There is an unspoken dark side of modern medicine–keeping patients alive at any price. Two thirds of Americans die in healthcare institutions, tethered to machines and tubes, even though research shows that most prefer to die at home in comfort, surrounded by loved ones.