As you have undoubtedly noticed, Americans are living longer than ever before. One of the side effects of this longevity is a fairly...
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Death certificates as we know them are a fairly modern invention. Like other records (baptism and marriage), they were commonly kept by local churches...
The first part of this post was about death and depth, depth as in “deep end” of something (yes, I likened it to the...
In our death-denying and youth-glorifying culture, how does dementia figure as a disease? Is there a cause? Is there a cure? What pills can...