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May 13, 2015 · Life Life before death: How dying affects living minds. Death shapes everything from individual lives to whole cultures, argue books by three social psychologists and an undertaker. By Caroline Morley
Nov 1, 2021 · Death is standing. It’s standing in the way liquid stands still in a container. Sometimes cooking instructions tell you to boil a mixture and then let it stand, while you complete another part of the recipe. That’s the way death is in the poem: standing, waiting for you to get farther along with whatever you are doing.
Feb 22, 2022 · Findings ‘challenge our understanding of when exactly life ends’. “We measured 900 seconds of brain activity around the time of death and set a specific focus to investigate what happened in the 30 seconds before and after the heart stopped beating,” said Dr Ajmal Zemmar, a neurosurgeon at the University of Louisville, US, who organized ...
The title has its origins in the Lancet planning a Commission on the value of life. It's an age-old idea that a good life and a good death go together. Our title has proved to be a rich source of thinking, helping us recognise the value of death in a world that tends to deny death any value.
- 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02314-X
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Jun 12, 2023 · WhataWin/Getty Images. Consciousness. Long the fixation of religions, philosophy and literature the world over, the conscious experience of dying has recently received increasingly significant ...
Mar 31, 2016 · Linda Chamberlain, co-founder of the Arizona-based cryonics company Alcor, hugs the container where the body of her husband, Fred, is frozen in the hope that someday he can be thawed and revived ...
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Oct 21, 2021 · Even now, we struggle with what death is. This chapter will focus on the biological definition of death. Biologists can live comfortably with an understanding of what life and death are, but for some situations a more precise definition is mandatory. That need manifests itself legally at the extremes of life: the beginning and the end.
