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Committee on Care at the End of Life,Institute of Medicine
Author : Committee on Care at the End of Life,Institute of Medicine Publisher : National Academies Press Page : 457 pages File Size : 49,5 Mb Release : 1997-10-30 Category : Medical ISBN : 9780309518253
Approaching Death by Committee on Care at the End of Life,Institute of Medicine Pdf
When the end of life makes its inevitable appearance, people should be able to expect reliable, humane, and effective caregiving. Yet too many dying people suffer unnecessarily. While an "overtreated" dying is feared, untreated pain or emotional abandonment are equally frightening. Approaching Death reflects a wide-ranging effort to understand what we know about care at the end of life, what we have yet to learn, and what we know but do not adequately apply. It seeks to build understanding of what constitutes good care for the dying and offers recommendations to decisionmakers that address specific barriers to achieving good care. This volume offers a profile of when, where, and how Americans die. It examines the dimensions of caring at the end of life: Determining diagnosis and prognosis and communicating these to patient and family. Establishing clinical and personal goals. Matching physical, psychological, spiritual, and practical care strategies to the patient's values and circumstances. Approaching Death considers the dying experience in hospitals, nursing homes, and other settings and the role of interdisciplinary teams and managed care. It offers perspectives on quality measurement and improvement, the role of practice guidelines, cost concerns, and legal issues such as assisted suicide. The book proposes how health professionals can become better prepared to care well for those who are dying and to understand that these are not patients for whom "nothing can be done."
Death'Dict: Is There Life After Death? by SULTAN TARLACI Pdf
Is There Life After Death? The Search for a Scientific Answer Science of Death, The First Book You'll Read Before You Die Table of Contents Death… 4 Death Anxiety Scale Test-1 15 Death Count and Death Statistics 16 The Fate of Death Written in the Cell 24 Coping with Fear and Anxiety of Death 33 Voices from Beyond Death… 52 The Brain State of the Spirit-Connected Psychic 60 Turks at Work for the Password in the Other World 73 The Spiritless: Zombies, Vampires and Ghosts 87 Capturing Immortality with Nanotechnology 96 Do we lose 21 grams when we die? 105 The Unrevealed Promising Evidence of the Afterlife 115 Is There Any Evidence of the Extra-Revelation Promised Realm? 119 Days to Death 134 Mourning as Relatives of the Deceased 141 Suspending Death Like the Seven Sleepers 149 Call Received Before Going: Death Mattress Events 163 Half and Full State of Death: Clinical Death and Brain Death 169 Is Reincarnation Rebirth? 176 Returning from the Gate of the Other Realm: Near-Death Experiences 270 Every Creation Dies One Day, Even the Universe 251 Death Anxiety Scale Test-2 266 Death… Thinking about death or even writing a book creates a different feeling. To many readers, the word may come across as a cold, aloof and lossy, unsettling word. Some people hesitate to even say the word. That the angel of death can be called Azrael. After meeting with our publishing house editor for a long time, we had planned to write a series of books on different subjects that would clear up the confusion. Although I had been thinking about writing a book about death for quite some time, putting it first was unexpected. In general, I did not think of such an order, since all narratives are treated linearly as birth-life and last-death. It suddenly occurred to me that it was more important to put aside the order of books and write about death. I guessed that you have more extensive knowledge to write about this subject and that it will attract more attention unlike other books I will prepare. However, how much a book with death on it will sell is another matter of discussion. In addition to interest, it seemed to me as an important justification that it could be at the top of an urgent need list. Because in this country, thousands of people die every day and their relatives witness their deaths. Many chronic and severe patients are also waiting for their death and their relatives are waiting with them. Or we may come face to face with unexpected sudden deaths. At that time, death was prepared as a pre-writable book on the subject, as the first book in the series. Death is an emergency for mortals and dying! Even in a world of death, nothing is as serious and remarkable as death. Since the ultimate victory is death, it is necessary to give priority to understanding it. When was man's first thought about death? This is difficult to know, but a look at the long history of evolution yields some clues. H. neanderthalensis, one of our relatives in the evolutionary family tree It emerged in the world 350 thousand years ago and their existence continued until 30 thousand years ago. Despite their brains being considerably larger than we are now, evolution – this data confirms once again the importance of function, not size – of organs, these hominids, unable to survive and make technical progress, seem to think as if they were thinking about death. Perhaps because they were ice age people, life was difficult for them and they died at an average of 40. Although they had big brains, they did not have the clothes they had developed to protect them from the cold. Although it has been suggested that Neanderthals buried their dead with religious rituals and floral ornaments, it has been suggested that the data found later cannot be interpreted so precisely, that the flower pollen found may have been carried there by the wind or that it may have come from the boots of the workers working in the excavation. Whatever the story here, in the event that a thinking human's hunting friend dies while hunting, or his wife, with whom he has made love and had a child, suddenly dies, it is likely that in his moonlit caverns by the waters, “where did the living, running and hunting person go?” His questioning was by looking at the stars. Because only yesterday she was out there hunting with him and looking after his children. What had happened to him then that he could not move, speak or react. Therefore, the perception of death is not new to the evolutionary scene. It is very likely that it emerged when hominids began to pretend to be someone else, to see their own reflection in the water or to remember their dreams. But “when exactly?” There is no one you can answer a question like. In the later periods, when socialization increased with living in groups, death began to pass into both mythologies and written documents as a part of life. We begin to see the first written documents about death in the Egyptian society that lived on the banks of the Nile 3500 years ago, and then it became a subject in different ways in Sumer, Assyria, Hittite and all other societies. On the other hand, the concept of death and after death creates an inseparable unity of questions and question marks seem to lie back to back. Where death is mentioned, the discussion of an afterlife, which starts with death and giving life, is also going on. With the emergence of monotheistic religions, death and afterlife became one of the most important parts of theology for a long time, since the afterlife became the promised life. With the birth of not only theology but philosophy, it became one of the longest and most important topics of discussion. Although it was suggested by some philosophers that it would not be the subject of philosophy "because it does not belong to life", it has become one of the important and even essential topics of philosophy arising from the mind-brain, soul-body discussions. For centuries, the mind-brain and soul-body debates continued and still do. Although the main question philosophy seeks to answer is how the mind-brain connection is achieved, whether there is a mind separate from the material flesh and brain, after all, if there is a structure that exists apart from the material body (whatever its name is mind, consciousness or spirit), what will happen with death? comes after. Life after death has been an area of interest not only for religions but also for spiritualism, and this interest has led to the birth of modern parapsychology. Although this trend, which started in the West in the 1800s, began to reach its consistency in the late 1950s in our country, the concept of the afterlife and death remained the main area of interest of spiritualism. The answer they were looking for – what kind of continuity is there in the afterlife – has provided a more moderate approach to the subject of death for the limited number of people who are interested in the subject, although they do not directly examine what death is. Many professionals have emerged who are committed to learning from the spirits of the psychic dead and understanding the order of the other side. Among them, there were people who were educated in scientific knowledge schools and even received the Nobel Prize. The experiences at the moment of death and the extraordinary events that took place during the deaths were recorded. It was tried to be put together in a frame and mold. For a long time, death was ignored by western philosophers and it was not considered and systematically examined, considering it a subjective situation close to metaphysics. Even the famous Wittgenstein claimed in his Tractus that "death is not an event of life" and that it cannot be talked about meaningfully. For example, Spinoza says in his Ethics that “the free person does not think about death, he contemplates on life”. This saying is also an escape. On the other hand, for some, death is the real muse of philosophy and they mostly focused on concepts such as death anxiety, what death is and how people learn about death. Conversely, August Comte said that "if there is only one philosophical truth, it is death". Socrates accepted philosophy as "preparation for death". According to him, philosophy would not be easily possible without death. Voltaire, on the other hand, says that we do not know what eternal life is, while present life is a terrible joke. He points out that the human species is the only species that is aware of death and knows that it will die when the day comes. Tirasaymakos, on the other hand, makes a remarkable emphasis in Philalethes' speech: "If my individuality does not continue, I will not even give metallicity to what you mumble about as immortality." He is right, but in today's sense, individuality means our personality, our memory of experience and our awareness of ourselves. The other world, where this does not exist, must not be very desirable. More recently, the issue of death has become an area of interest in medicine, due to the development of organ transplants and the demand for organ harvesting from deceased people. Because organs could be taken from people who died, not from living people, and what exactly death meant had to be defined for physicians. For this purpose, "brain death diagnostic criteria" were started to be developed by neurologists in the not too distant 1970s. Although these criteria have changed over time, the concept of "brain death" as a general pattern has settled in medicine and has been accepted as the legal definition of death. The diagnosis of “brain death” meant death medically and legally, and the same nomenclature is still valid today, except for some minor details. Again, developing health technologies, improving the storage conditions of tissues taken from humans, and after many animal experiments, "Can we freeze humans and keep them in order to wake them up again in the future?" approaches emerged. The same question was asked whether it could be done by putting astronauts or passengers to sleep with some kind of deep cooling during sending humans to Mars or distant planets. In this case, the freezing process, which was applied, required a definition of death, as it required a starting point. On the other hand, people paid money to wake up after death by freezing himself (whole body or just the head) in the hope of being cured sometime in the future. Body ice cream companies were established in different parts of the world. It required a reconsideration of the concept of death—when it started—as it had to be applied legally as soon as the diagnosis of death was made. Parapsychologists were interested in near-death experiences, but for the last ten years, physicians working in hospitals have also started to take part in research topics. Discussions began to be published in scientific journals on the subject about why near-death experiences could occur and what could happen in the brain neurologically, physiologically and chemically at that time. In other words, death and near-death experiences can also be revealed and researched with the scientific method. In this way, we have come to understand better a concept called "clinical death", which has been emphasized. We have added “clinical death” to the concept of “brain death”. Spiritualism, continue to be a subject of interest and discussion today as it was in the past. Aside from saying "I used to be this, you are not my parents" when children are 3-4 years old, self-helpers and regression healers have come to the point of giving people one or more past lives as gifts. The immortality implied by the rebirth cases and the state of being reincarnated in the world after death continue to be an important belief issue both in our country and in the world even today. It is a matter of both belief and debate among people at all levels of education. More recently, recordings of cerebral blood flow and brain waves (EEG) of deceased persons at the time of death were made and these were published and presented to other scientists for their opinions. However, physical and physiological examination of deceased persons at the time of death is a very rare situation in science, and the first experiments were carried out almost a hundred years ago. It was reported in the newspapers that 21 grams were lost from the body with death. Even if the film was made in the intervening time, the scientific confirmations did not give the same result. But when the movie was released, the 21 grams issue occupied the minds and asked, “Is the soul only 21 grams? Oh, does it only weigh as much as a piece of chocolate?” had been asked. Since quantum physics pervades our daily lives, its implications have made us rethink the issue of "death and extinction" - I haven't observed the same thing for quantum physicists at universities dealing with solid matter. A hundred years ago, everything was a particle. Then it was introduced into our minds that there were no particles but only concentrations of energy. Today, however, we understand that neither particles nor energy concentrations. Everything that makes up matter is actually information and temporary existences in the universal quantum field or wave function! At that time, our structure is not a decaying, depleted matter, but a structure that has continuity according to quantum physics, but only transitions from state to state. “In this case, what would be the meaning of bodily or cerebral death?” The question was asked and comments were written and drawn by opening the curtain on life after death. Therefore, the meaning of the word death began to be perceived and felt differently. Today, the issue of death is one of the most important issues in the minds of modern people, whether they live in the village or in the city. However, it is discussed in the secret subconscious but in open conscious conversations. Although most people do not talk about the subject, you must have had a mandatory recollection of death, either at night or during the death of their relatives, or during the burial. You have probably asked yourself one or more of the questions you will see in the chapter titles of our book, not just remembering. You've probably just asked yourself and silently. Unbeknownst to anyone... Even while thinking about death in your mind, you must have thought quietly so that death would stay away... In this book, we will begin to find answers to questions about death in the minds of readers, and perhaps even unintentionally to create new questions. We can cause some people to reconsider the truths they believe in. Our main aim is to consider and discuss death by considering more scientific information today, without ever addressing the theological concept of death and the afterlife. The question of why theological debates do not exist in this book is a separate issue and is of interest to theologians. In this land where tradition and religion are almost inextricably intertwined – thankfully, many academic theologians in our universities can make this distinction very well from the perspective of the Qur'an – it would be best not to discuss religion and death, the afterlife. For example, a subject such as the promise of Paradise for Abraham is not covered in detail in the book. Another issue is what a neurologist, who is the author of this book, can have to do with death. Neurology is a field of medicine dealing with brain and spinal cord diseases. After all, I am one of the mortals. On the other hand, neurologists are one of the specialties that diagnose medical death and brain death. Neurologists are the first to give consent for organ transplantation when the diagnosis of brain death is made. Neurology is one of the specialties with the highest number of deaths and deaths in hospitals. Apart from that, near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences and some other abnormal death-related phenomena are related to the nervous system and brain. Perhaps most importantly, neurologists, who are scientists, deal with the concepts of consciousness, memory and personality. All of these things somehow originate in the brain, and what happens to them when the brain dies are a question on the neurologist's mind. For this reason, the neurologist, who is a physician and scientist, does not ask (or even can) ask where the soul goes when he dies, he asks whether consciousness-memory-personality continues. The question to ask is: do we die when we die? And proving that our existence continues after death means revealing the most important secret for us. After all, you are mortal as a living being that comes to life! When we are born and even from the mother's womb, there is a seal on our butt: "mortal". Since we are created, and in other words, we are not creators, we will "die". According to the Islamic religious belief, we will be laid alone on the musalla stone, we will be buried under the ground alone. Even further, our universe will face death at some future time. A very dark and incredibly cold universal death! Other Realm Research Periods It is possible to divide the researches on the other world into four time periods. These periods can be grouped as 1880-1930, 1930-1960, 1960-1990 and 1990 to present. It is the first period between 1830-1930. It is the period of collecting, classifying and analyzing the "spontaneous" experiences of people who have seen the ghosts of dead people. The accumulation of knowledge that started with psychics also coincides with this period. As the 1930s approached, many case examples were accumulated and concepts such as extrasensory perception and super psi were written. Although parapsychology resorted to experimental methods between 1930 and 1960, many parapsychologists did not engage in much research and experimentation on the afterlife. It can be said that they even neglected such a topic. While this period in the West was the period of experimental parapsychology, in our country, the spiritism movement that was about to end in the West, Dr. It is the period when it started to grow with Bedri Ruhselman. In the next period, Dr. Ruhselman sifted his flour on spiritism and hung his sieve. He had left behind enough knowledge. Between 1960 and 1990, methods were developed to prevent telepathy from their living relatives in an effort to gather information from beyond death. Information was collected by these methods. Death has become the subject of science. Especially with the start of organ transplants, definitions of what death is and the concept of brain death began to be made. Although science was not interested in the afterlife, parapsychologists continued to gather information. Between 1985 and 1995, many people were trained and emerged in the field of parapsychology in our country. New associations were formed and many publishers emerged. Since the 1995s, the otherworld has continued to be the subject of philosophy and other research fields, if not more positively, of science. In addition to the positive discussions, quantum physics was also included in the event. Personal developments also did not stay away from the event and made all efforts to send people to the beyond. The concept of the afterlife is still one of the taboos for science. Well, memories can persist "somewhere else" that persists after physical death. Because looking at some case reports, some reported incidents should not exist if the materialism is true. Darwin's theory of evolution cast doubt on the belief that man has a soul. Despite this, Alfred R. Wallace, one of the founding fathers of the theory of evolution, was an ardent spiritualist and never deviated from his belief that human beings would exist after death. Yet Darwin had encircled the throne on which the soul sat and brought it down. But we know that the belief or idea that something resembling this life will continue forever and untimely in the afterlife continues to bother some. Questions, questions and questions… Are you ready to ask aloud questions about death, talk and discuss scientific information? Surprise and bewilderment are the most important stimulant sources that enable learning. In your warm brain inside your heads, I'm sure you have many questions and you don't have the answers: What is the death that these people and I will experience? Do I really die when I die? Or is something going on? Is it possible to remain? Is there such a thing as “I think therefore I am” outside of our body? Will my personality and memory remain the same after death? When death knocks on the door, does everyone have to open it, or do some return from that door? Does a person die because he is sick or because he is alive? Is disembodied awareness possible? Is there an experience without a brain? Does the experience continue after death? If it continues, is it a continuation of our personality before we die? In the next world, will we be able to wake up here as we wake up every morning? Believing in the afterlife means affirming eternal life, but if time has an end, how will it be? Will we feel alive when our organic body is destroyed? Do we change space with death, or does our consciousness change environment or state? Did we sanctify the afterlife because absence is not a bearable feeling? Are near-death or near-death experiences real? Are people who claim to be born again lying or are they mentally ill? Soulless immortals, are vampires real? Are there ghosts that cause spirits to cause confusion in this world? Is the life after death only virtual, like walking in one's own mind, or is it an objective life? Will we remember our memories before we die? Will it be a private world or a public and open world to all? Will everyone have their own dream? Is it beyond the knowledge of positive science that works with the senses? Can science claim that there is no continuity after death? Is burning in hell more acceptable than non-existence? Is it death that really scares people, or is it the possibility of our existence being completely lost? Where is the other world as space? If the existence of the other world is confirmed, will it be necessary to change the marriage vows to forever, not "until death do us part"? If we get conclusive evidence that psychics connect with the souls of the deceased on the other side, wouldn't we have to develop a new law on the legal rights of the deceased on this side? On the other hand, if the famous scientists who died are not going to stay in the other world and they pursue discovery and invention there, how will the patent right be provided? When the certainty of life after death is revealed, how will we respond to people who intend to commit suicide and who want death (euthanasia) in incurable illness, and what will be its place in law? Again, when psychiatric patients come to psychologists and psychiatrists, how many souls will they bring with them? How will the visit fee be determined in this case and from whom will it be requested? There are also questions about the desire for immortality and the psychology of death. What psychology enters someone who learns that you have a deadly disease and that you have a number of days left, and what stages does he go through emotionally? Is the sadness that we mourn after the death normal? How long does it take, how long does it take to become a diseased condition? Even if I cannot become immortal one day, if I keep the genetic codes of my brain unchanged, can I be brought back to life hundreds of years from now? If I want to freeze my brain or body in time so that it does not change, is the price different? The "death " words and questions that I write a lot, I recommend you to read this book again. Because from the beginning of the topic until the time you read it – except you – 100 people died in the world and 1 person in Turkey! Although the world population is constantly increasing and cities are more crowded, this does not mean that there are no deaths. The numbers are only increasing because the birth rate is higher than the death rate. Cities are growing. In the next 100 years, the current world population of 7,215,731,300 people will die. With the open number, these seven billion two hundred and fifteen thousand imperfect people will be included in this number as the author of this book and you as the reader. But we're going to die somehow from heart disease, but from cancer, but from a stroke in the brain or some other disease. One end of the storyboard is birth, the other end is death… Are you ready to watch the end of the movie?
Beloved guru Ram Dass tells the story of his spiritual awakening and gives you the tools to take control of your life in this “counterculture bible” (The New York Times) featuring powerful guidance on yoga, meditation, and finding your true self. When Be Here Now was first published in 1971, it filled a deep spiritual emptiness, launched the ongoing mindfulness revolution, and established Ram Dass as perhaps the preeminent seeker of the twentieth century. Just ten years earlier, he was known as Professor Richard Alpert. He held appointments in four departments at Harvard University. He published books, drove a Mercedes and regularly vacationed in the Caribbean. By most societal standards, he had achieved great success. . . . And yet he couldn’t escape the feeling that something was missing. Psilocybin and LSD changed that. During a period of experimentation, Alpert peeled away each layer of his identity, disassociating from himself as a professor, a social cosmopolite, and lastly, as a physical being. Fear turned into exaltation upon the realization that at his truest, he was just his inner-self: a luminous being that he could trust indefinitely and love infinitely. And thus, a spiritual journey commenced. Alpert headed to India where his guru renamed him Baba Ram Dass—“servant of God.” He was introduced to mindful breathing exercises, hatha yoga, and Eastern philosophy. If he found himself reminiscing or planning, he was reminded to “Be Here Now.” He started upon the path of enlightenment, and has been journeying along it ever since. Be Here Now is a vehicle for sharing the true message, and a guide to self-determination.
The fact that we will die, and that our death can come at any time, pervades the entirety of our living. There are many ways to think about and deal with death. Among those ways, however, a good number of them are attempts to escape its grip. In this book, Todd May seeks to confront death in its power. He considers the possibility that our mortal deaths are the end of us, and asks what this might mean for our living. What lessons can we draw from our mortality? And how might we live as creatures who die, and who know we are going to die? In answering these questions, May brings together two divergent perspectives on death. The first holds that death is not an evil, or at least that immortality would be far worse than dying. The second holds that death is indeed an evil, and that there is no escaping that fact. May shows that if we are to live with death, we need to hold these two perspectives together. Their convergence yields both a beauty and a tragedy to our living that are inextricably entwined.Drawing on the thoughts of many philosophers and writers - ancient and modern - as well as his own experience, May puts forward a particular view of how we might think about and, more importantly, live our lives in view of the inescapability of our dying. In the end, he argues, it is precisely the contingency of our lives that must be grasped and which must be folded into the hours or years that remain to each of us, so that we can live each moment as though it were at once a link to an uncertain future and yet perhaps the only link we have left.
Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much momentum that it was viewed by more than three million readers worldwide in its first year. At the request of many, Bronnie subsequently wrote a book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, to share her story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse life. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for everyone, if we make the right choices, to die with peace of mind. In this revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide, with translations in 29 languages, Bronnie expresses how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying gives hope for a better world. It is a courageous, life-changing book that will leave you feeling more compassionate and inspired to live the life you are truly here to live.
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson Pdf
*The basis for the wonderfully funny and moving TV series developed by Amy Poehler and Scout Productions* A charming, practical, and unsentimental approach to putting a home in order while reflecting on the tiny joys that make up a long life. In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called döstädning, dö meaning “death” and städning meaning “cleaning.” This surprising and invigorating process of clearing out unnecessary belongings can be undertaken at any age or life stage but should be done sooner than later, before others have to do it for you. In The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, artist Margareta Magnusson, with Scandinavian humor and wisdom, instructs readers to embrace minimalism. Her radical and joyous method for putting things in order helps families broach sensitive conversations, and makes the process uplifting rather than overwhelming. Margareta suggests which possessions you can easily get rid of (unworn clothes, unwanted presents, more plates than you’d ever use) and which you might want to keep (photographs, love letters, a few of your children’s art projects). Digging into her late husband’s tool shed, and her own secret drawer of vices, Margareta introduces an element of fun to a potentially daunting task. Along the way readers get a glimpse into her life in Sweden, and also become more comfortable with the idea of letting go.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "I had the choice to come back ... or not. I chose to return when I realized that 'heaven' is a state, not a place" In this truly inspirational memoir, Anita Moorjani relates how, after fighting cancer for almost four years, her body began shutting down—overwhelmed by the malignant cells spreading throughout her system. As her organs failed, she entered into an extraordinary near-death experience where she realized her inherent worth . . . and the actual cause of her disease. Upon regaining consciousness, Anita found that her condition had improved so rapidly that she was released from the hospital within weeks—without a trace of cancer in her body! Within this enhanced e-book, Anita recounts—in words and on video—stories of her childhood in Hong Kong, her challenge to establish her career and find true love, as well as how she eventually ended up in that hospital bed where she defied all medical knowledge. In "Dying to Be Me," Anita Freely shares all she has learned about illness, healing, fear, "being love," and the true magnificence of each and every human being!
Do Dead People Watch You Shower? by Concetta Bertoldi Pdf
Concetta Bertoldi has been communicating with the "Other Side" since childhood. In the first book of its kind, she exposes the naked truth about the fate and happiness of our late loved ones with no-holds-barred honesty and delightfully wry humor, answering questions that range from the practical to the outrageous. In addition she shares with us her own intimate secrets, revealing how her miraculous gift has affected her life, her marriage, her friendships, and her career, as well as the myriad ways she has used it to help others.--From publisher description.
Estimation of the Time Since Death by Burkhard Madea Pdf
Estimation of the Time Since Death remains the foremost authoritative book on scientifically calculating the estimated time of death postmortem. Building on the success of previous editions which covered the early postmortem period, this new edition also covers the later postmortem period including putrefactive changes, entomology, and postmortem r
Though death is universal, how we respond to it depends on when and where we live. Dying and grieving continually evolve: new preparations for dying, new kinds of funerals, new ways of handling grief and new ways to memorialise are developing all the time. Bringing 25 years of research and teaching in the sociology of death and dying to this important book, Tony Walter engages critically with key questions such as: should we talk about death more and plan in advance? How effective is this as more people suffer frailty and dementia? How do physical migration and digital connection affect place-bound deathbeds, funerals and graves? Is the traditional funeral still relevant? Can burial and cremation be ecological? And how should we grieve: quietly, openly, or online?
Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person by Anna Mehler Paperny Pdf
An engrossing memoir-meets-investigative report that takes a fresh, frank look at how we treat depression. Depression is a havoc-wreaking illness that masquerades as personal failing and hijacks your life. After a major suicide attempt in her early twenties, Anna Mehler Paperny resolved to put her reporter’s skills to use to get to know her enemy, setting off on a journey to understand her condition, the dizzying array of medical treatments on offer, and a medical profession in search of answers. Charting the way depression wrecks so many lives, she maps competing schools of therapy, pharmacology, cutting-edge medicine, the pill-popping pitfalls of long-term treatment, the glaring unknowns and the institutional shortcomings that both patients and practitioners are up against. She interviews leading medical experts across the US and Canada, from psychiatrists to neurologists, brain-mapping pioneers to family practitioners, and others dabbling in strange hypotheses—and shares compassionate conversations with fellow sufferers. Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me tracks Anna’s quest for knowledge and her desire to get well. Impeccably reported, it is a profoundly compelling story about the human spirit and the myriad ways we treat (and fail to treat) the disease that accounts for more years swallowed up by disability than any other in the world. If you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts, help is available. Contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255.
A scientific exploration into humanity’s obsession with the afterlife and quest for immortality from the bestselling author and skeptic Michael Shermer In his most ambitious work yet, Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans’ belief in life after death, focusing on recent scientific attempts to achieve immortality along with utopian attempts to create heaven on earth. For millennia, religions have concocted numerous manifestations of heaven and the afterlife, and though no one has ever returned from such a place to report what it is really like—or that it even exists—today science and technology are being used to try to make it happen in our lifetime. From radical life extension to cryonic suspension to mind uploading, Shermer considers how realistic these attempts are from a proper skeptical perspective. Heavens on Earth concludes with an uplifting paean to purpose and progress and how we can live well in the here-and-now, whether or not there is a hereafter.
Robert Lanza is one of the most respected scientists in the world — a US News & World Report cover story called him a “genius" and a “renegade thinker," even likening him to Einstein. Lanza has teamed with Bob Berman, the most widely read astronomer in the world, to produce Biocentrism, a revolutionary new view of the universe. Every now and then a simple yet radical idea shakes the very foundations of knowledge. The startling discovery that the world was not flat challenged and ultimately changed the way people perceived themselves and their relationship with the world. For most humans of the 15th century, the notion of Earth as ball of rock was nonsense. The whole of Western, natural philosophy is undergoing a sea change again, increasingly being forced upon us by the experimental findings of quantum theory, and at the same time, towards doubt and uncertainty in the physical explanations of the universe's genesis and structure. Biocentrism completes this shift in worldview, turning the planet upside down again with the revolutionary view that life creates the universe instead of the other way around. In this paradigm, life is not an accidental byproduct of the laws of physics. Biocetnrism takes the reader on a seemingly improbable but ultimately inescapable journey through a foreign universe—our own—from the viewpoints of an acclaimed biologist and a leading astronomer. Switching perspective from physics to biology unlocks the cages in which Western science has unwittingly managed to confine itself. Biocentrism will shatter the reader's ideas of life--time and space, and even death. At the same time it will release us from the dull worldview of life being merely the activity of an admixture of carbon and a few other elements; it suggests the exhilarating possibility that life is fundamentally immortal. The 21st century is predicted to be the Century of Biology, a shift from the previous century dominated by physics. It seems fitting, then, to begin the century by turning the universe outside-in and unifying the foundations of science with a simple idea discovered by one of the leading life-scientists of our age. Biocentrism awakens in readers a new sense of possibility, and is full of so many shocking new perspectives that the reader will never see reality the same way again.
A vulnerable, honest and deeply personal guide to finding your way through grief. Flora Baker was only twenty when her mum died suddenly of cancer. Her coping strategy was simple: ignore the magnitude of her loss. But when her dad became terminally ill nine years later, Flora was forced to confront the reality of grief. She had to accept that her life had changed forever. In The Adult Orphan Club, Flora draws on a decade of experience with grief and parent loss to explore all the chaotic ways that grief affects us, and how we can learn to navigate it. Written with the newly bereaved in mind and packed with practical tips and advice, this book guides the reader through every step of their grief journey and opens up the death conversation in an honest, heartfelt and accessible way. Whether you’re grieving your own loss or supporting someone else through grief, The Adult Orphan Club will show you that you’re not broken, and you’re not alone.
