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Do You Believe in Life After Death? These Scientists Study It.
news.movim.eu / TheNewYorkTimes • 3 January, 2025
Is reincarnation real? Is communication from the “beyond” possible? A small set of academics are trying to find out, case by case.
In your final years, do you want your doctor to talk to you about death? Here’s how it can help | Kathryn Mannix
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 29 August, 2024 • 1 minute
Working in palliative care, I’ve seen too many dying people subjected to invasive treatment in place of frank conversations
Another day, another story about death being a surprise to people. As part of a recent study, palliative care and radiology specialist doctors reviewed the records of their hospital’s most elderly patients, to count X-rays and scans performed in the last six months of life. They examined the case-notes of one in four of all the patients over the age of 80 who died in a six-month period of 2021. Between them, these 96 patients had 389 X-rays, 92 ultrasound scans, 192 CT scans and six MRI scans. The review found that burdensome tests – some of which have uncomfortable and even life-threatening side-effects– are being ordered and repeated even as the patients’ lives are drawing to an end. The authors speculate that ordering“more tests” diverts doctors and their patients from uncomfortable conversations about dying.
Although there may be better ways to spend limited NHS funds, it is not the financial cost of unhelpful medical tests that disturb me – rather it is the human cost to dying people and their families. After a long career in palliative care in an NHS hospital setting, I recognise the scenario this paper reveals: our reluctance to name, to recognise or to discuss dying.
Dr Kathryn Mannix is a retired palliative care doctor, and author of With the End in Mind and Listen
Continue reading...‘Modern death is clinical, antiseptic’: the festival that wants to revive the Irish wake
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 19 May, 2024
Artists, singers, writers and scholars gather in County Mayo as a ‘clarion call’ to protect the rite of passage they believe is under threat
It was a scene once common in homes across Ireland : a body in an open coffin surrounded by family, friends and acquaintances who shared stories, sang songs, ate sandwiches, and sipped tea or perhaps something stronger. Over three days they bade farewell to the dead in humanity’s oldest rite.
The Irish wake is part of a tradition practised in some form by every culture dating back thousands of years, a ritual to comfort the bereaved and acknowledge loss.
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What to Do With an Inheritance
news.movim.eu / TheNewYorkTimes • 18 May, 2024
A sudden windfall while grieving can be an emotional minefield, particularly for younger adults. Experts share ways to handle it wisely.
Dutch woman, 29, granted euthanasia approval on grounds of mental suffering
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 16 May, 2024
Zoraya ter Beek, who has has chronic depression, anxiety, trauma and unspecified personality disorder, expected to end her life soon
A 29-year-old Dutch woman who has been granted her request for assisted dying on the grounds of unbearable mental suffering is expected to end her life in the coming weeks, fuelling a debate across Europe over the issue.
Zoraya ter Beek received the final approval last week for assisted dying after a three and a half year process under a law passed in the Netherlands in 2002.
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