Category Archives: Mysteries and the End of Life

The Dead Girl Who Continues to Live

Four years ago I wrote a post entitled “When Death Is Not Death: Stumbling Over the Parameters of “Brain Dead” about brain death and other...

When the Decedent Was a Hoarder

What is hoarding? I like this simple definition from the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. Hoarding is the persistent difficulty discarding or parting...

Autopoiesis in Language and Meaning

  I will begin this follow-up to my previous post with revisiting a definition of autopoiesis: Planetary physiology is the autopoiesis of the cell...