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5 days ago · All medical aid-in-dying legislation recognizes that the patient decides who is present at the time of death. Most patients who choose to ingest medical aid-in-dying medications will have their close family and friends present.
4 days ago · Death, the total cessation of life processes that eventually occurs in all living organisms. The state of human death has always been obscured by mystery and superstition, and its precise definition remains controversial, differing according to culture and legal systems.
4 days ago · Death - Process, Event, Causes: The American physician and writer Oliver Wendell Holmes said “to live is to function” and “that is all there is in living.” But who or what is the subject who lives because it functions? Is death the irreversible loss of function of the whole organism (or cell)—that is, of every one of its component parts?
6 days ago · In all pre-modern societies the most common age at death is the first year of life: it is only as infant mortality falls below around 33-34 per thousand (roughly a tenth of estimated ancient and medieval levels) that deaths in a later year of life (usually around age 80) become more numerous.
4 days ago · Death is repeatedly compared with sleep, which is at times described as “the little death.” God takes away people’s souls “during their sleep” and “upon their death.” He “retains those against whom he has decreed death, but returns the others to their bodies for an appointed term” (39:42–43).
1 day ago · Philosophy of religion article index. v. t. e. The afterlife or life after death is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's stream of consciousness or identity continues to exist after the death of their physical body. [1] The surviving essential aspect varies between belief systems; it may be some partial element ...
14 hours ago · Jul 09, 2024, 07:26 PM. MOSCOW - Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that the death of innocent children was very painful, a day after a lethal ...
