Tag: dying
Against the Tide: The Classroom Where C. S. Lewis Taught
“They were the last lectures Lewis ever gave. I’m very pleased to have been at them.”
Neuroscientist: Neuroscience “Is a Failure”
“How many other scientific disciplines have utterly failed to explain the salient phenomenon of the system they study?” I can think of one.
Doctor’s Diary: On Designed Obsolescence
Dying actually begins at conception. From the moment of conception the directions for a person’s demise are passed on to every cell.
Doctor’s Diary: The Ultimate Engineer
The 4-4-4 rule says that we would perish without oxygen for four minutes, water for four days, or food for four weeks.
“Starve Me” Advance Directive Would Be Immoral
Many of these provisions are, to say the least, subject to interpretation. And people with dementia may refuse food one meal, and accept the next.