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Tag: death

  • Zombie Genes Thursday Open Comments

    When do we actually die? Doctors in a Canadian intensive care unit have stumbled on a very strange case – when life support was turned off for four terminal patients, one of them showed persistent brain activity even after they were declared clinically dead. For more than 10 minutes after doctors confirmed death through a…

  • Thursday Obit Open Comments

    Well, we’ve finally scheduled Dad’s funeral. I’m working on the worship aid for his mass, and I’m including an obituary on the last page. Heck, just listing his offspring takes up a large part of that page. I came across this page and found some interesting obits, to wit: “Ida Mae had a rich but…

  • Thursday Worse than Politics Open Comments

    I was waiting for this, but it sends chills up and down my spine. …we could lose a century of progress and find ourselves dying in the millions from tuberculosis, just like our 19th-century ancestors. I was exposed to TB as a child, and had to have lung x-rays every year until I went to…