Tag: Death

• Speak me fair in death

  There is a question whose answer I think I should start preparing. It’s not one that would make a large difference to me at this time I suppose, but it still needs some serious thought, some proper wording. The problem of formulating it too far in advance is that its validity might be questioned. Some […]

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  June 15, 2022

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  apotheosis, Death, deathbed statements, epilogues, epistemical privileging, Eric Schwitzgebel, final thoughts, Macquarie University in Sydney, medically assisted death, Neil Levy, traditions

• Yet Death will seize the doctor too

  Death seems a lot closer now than in my youth; but it was always just around a corner, peeking out from traffic lights, hiding in the limb of a tree I might have climbed. And it’s not as if it suddenly surfaced when I retired either -death is a fact of life; we come from […]

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  June 23, 2021

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  Aeon.co, Death, Life, Nature, Psyche, questions, Stephen Cave, Tennyson, University of Cambridge, void

• When beggars die there are no comets seen

  When I was growing up, Death was a word I rarely had to use. I suppose that’s the thing about nuclear families: they sometimes privilege the unit at the expense of others in the kin. Occasionally, a distant relative I had never met succumbed, or there would be a report on the news of casualties […]

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  March 11, 2020

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  Aeon.co, Andy Owen, closure, Death, Frank Kermode, lives are stories, Pauline Boss, stories, The Sense of an Ending

• The time is out of joint

  It came as a great shock, of course -Youth  does not easily admit defeat: it lives as if there is always a tomorrow, will always be a tomorrow. The sun will rise after any darkness; day will always follow night. Youth is immortal, although perhaps it is that death is further away than they can […]

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  July 2, 2019

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  Aeon.co, Bernard Williams, brain tumour, categorical vs contingent desires, Death, Groundhog Day, immortality, King’s College London, lifespan, listening, Miguel de Unamuno, New York University, Paul Sagar, Samuel Scheffler

• Death, Thou shalt Die

  Just when you think that Age has afforded you a full panoply of experience, another one comes along that you are forced to fit into the bookcase. It may be sufficiently unique as to require an entirely new shelf, but more likely, it will be something so obvious that you’re embarrassed you hadn’t thought of […]

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  April 10, 2019

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  Age, bereavement, Death, digital presence, Facebook, Grief, internet, Jo Bell, memorial websites, social media, Starbucks, suicide, The Conversation, University of Hull, virtual self

• What did you expect?

  We have become obligate avoiders, dwellers in the middle of the field well away from boundaries –the just-right-baby-bears of the Goldilocks tale. We seek to protect ourselves from edges, no matter how pervasive, how common, how important they may be. It was for a very good reason that the American folk hero, John Wayne, felt […]

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  December 21, 2016

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  BBC news, birth, children at the birth, Death, delivery, end of life, gestalt, midwife, obstetrical practice, placenta, women’s health, Youtube

• A Right to Die?

  Death is a word most doctors avoid; it is a defeat. Anathema. It is, in all their texts, in all their studies, blasphemous. Heresy. And my specialty is certainly not immune. In Obstetrics, it is an especial desecration: we are so used to dealing with the opposite that the very word, let alone the concept […]

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  August 7, 2014

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  alpha and omega, assisted dying, Bill Moyers interview, Death, Death in Obstetrics, death with dignity, Desmond Tutu, Do not go gentle…, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Campbell, the right to die