Doing Too Much for Terminal Patients: A Better Path to the End of Life
A critical care physician discusses how doctors are learning to resist their impulses to over-treat.
Death and Grief Sub-categories:
- Autopsy (2)
- Bereavement (2)
- Fatality (6)
Music for the Dying and Grieving (2017)
Music thanatology is a specialized practice of playing harp music for the dying. A practitioner of the art explains how there is also science to it as well.
Grief
Everyone deals with grief at one time or another. An expert discusses how it's experienced by most people, and what separates normal grief from more problematic depression A writer/illustrator discusses his experience dealing with his spouse's sudden death.
Preserving Life Versus Prolonging Death
An award winning science writer discusses her experience observing how medical professionals and patients differ in their acceptance of impending death, and what families need to know to navigate the end of life toward a "good death."
Maternal Mortality
The death rate surrounding pregnancy in the U.S. has been climbing to the point it compares with some third world countries rather than the western European nations we once compared to. Experts discuss possible reasons for the increase and one possible way to reverse it.
HPV, Cancer, and the HPV Vaccine
Human papilloma viruses are responsible for many cancers, especially cervical cancer and throat cancer. Vaccines exist for the major HPVs that cause these cancers, yet relatively few eligible youths have gotten them.
Music Thanatology
Music thanatology is a specialized practice of playing harp music for the dying. A practitioner of the art explains how there is also science to it as well.
