A tot of whiskey for your dying hours
UK – Hospitals should allow dying patients a tot of whiskey to ease their final days, a leading doctor has said,
UK – Hospitals should allow dying patients a tot of whiskey to ease their final days, a leading doctor has said,
USA – Most people avoid the topics of aging and dying like the plague. Erica Hollack, author of “Live Well, Die Well,”
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,
USA – Thinking about death isn’t doing the annuity industry any favors, but it could be the missing piece of a
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.
My father spent 10 days dying. He was 84 and he had lost his wife – my mother, whom he adored, and without whom he
For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn’t matter whether you were five or fifty – every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mortal.
One of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s famous interdisciplinary seminar on death, life, and transition. In this remarkable book, she first explored the now-famous five stages of death:
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