end of life

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• Euthanasia (Part 2)

  
  MacDoctor — Authority: 518
  End of Life Issues I have blogged about these issues before, using the sad case of Eluana Englaro as an example, here and here . For most of us, death comes as a discrete event. The doctor pokes your corpse a bit, listens for a heartbeat and breathing, finds none and writes out your death certificate. You are ...
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• What should you pay for end-of-life care?

  
  Action For Better Healthcare — Authority: 122
  Treating those with a terminal illness is never easy. In the healthcare arena there are different opinions on how much to spend on end-of-life care and how to approach the patient.   A recent article in The New York Times describes these vast differences. The reporter explains that “the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical ...
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• Euthanasia (Part 1)

  
  MacDoctor — Authority: 518
  Euthanasia is a topic not unlike abortion, in that it generates a great deal of heat in a conversation and very little light. Like abortion, it is being practiced in New Zealand. Unlike abortion, there is no set of rules to guide it’s use and overt euthanasia often meets the business end of Law Enforcement – ...
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• OpenOffice.org announces "end-of-life" for version 2.x of its productivity suite

  
  Ramble on — Authority: 120
  OpenOffice.org announces "end-of-life" for version 2.x of its productivity suite : Via OpenOffice 2.x End Of Life at Hellow’s Blog . I’ve found pretty interesting the FAQ part: What does end-of-life status mean? Is the software unusable now? So, can I go on using the old version? I’m a Linux user, and my ...
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• 2010 FirstLook: The Thousand Mile Stare By Gary Reiswig

  
  BASIL & SPICE--Mind And Body! — Authority: 122
  Review By Patricia Gale Today, with a drop of blood, science can tell each of us whether or not we have a gene that will cause early onset Alzheimer’s disease (EOAD). This medical leap forward is due in large part to the Reiswig family, who had the courage to reverse generations of denial and share their medical ...
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• Love Let Me Go Its Euthanasia

  
  Authspot — Authority: 543
  EUTHANASIA Love let me go Love let me go The time approaches So very fast Life’s a maze Gone aghast The end arrives at last. Love now holds not on to me Let me go so happily Not upon the bed spray Annoyance of disgust Its time for you to help me Let me go just go ...
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• open the gate to unknown mercy

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 129
  Re-reading the Comments sent in over the last two days opens a new way of looking at giving and receiving human kindness. Allow me to paraphrase a few readers’ comments:  receive so others can give / gratitude in receiving is a gift to the giver / there’s a lot of love in the world … that’s why keep coming ...
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• standing at the gate of mercy

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 129
  Re-reading the Comments sent in over the last two days opens a new way of looking at giving and receiving human kindness. Allow me to paraphrase a few readers’ comments:  receive so others can give / gratitude in receiving is a gift to the giver / there’s a lot of love in the world … that’s why I keep coming ...
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• Husband and Wife

  
  Notes from the Country Doctor — Authority: 111
  I strolled into the morning report room just as the resident presented what happened with a ninety year old woman admitted a few nights earlier during the night which was nothing. She had been whats referred to as a "social admit" meaning cant be managed at home and the family doesnt know what to do with her. To give ...
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• GERMANY: Fire kills three awaiting death at German hospice

  
  Seniors World Chronicle — Authority: 491
  . COLOGNE, Germany / The Earth Times / DPA / December 19, 2009 A nighttime fire killed three terminally patients at a hospice in Cologne, Germany, police said early Saturday. Police identified two of the dead, aged 71 and 81, but said they had not yet formally identified a third body. A fourth patient, aged ...
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• Spiritual Needs Rank High as Death From Cancer Nears

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 528
  FRIDAY, Dec. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Addressing the spiritual needs of someone with advanced cancer could be just as important as taking care of their medical needs, a new study suggests. Image:  read more
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• Life Concerns in Senate Health Care Reform Bill

  
  americans united for life blog — Authority: 512
  I.  Abortion Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care bill includes pro-abortion language that mirrors the Capps Amendment from the original House health care bill.  The bill: Allows the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to require coverage of any and all abortions through the community health ...
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• Important Webcast: End of Support for Windows 2000 Server and moving to Windows Server 2008 R2

  
  Microsoft SMB Community Blog — Authority: 462
  Earlier this week, I posted about the upcoming Support for Windows XP SP2 Ends July, 2010 - Understand the options webcast taking place tomorrow to ensure you were aware of what this milestone means on the desktop operating system front.  Another very important thing to remember about the July, 2010 timeframe ...
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• UK: MPs back doctors right to help their patients die

  
  Seniors World Chronicle — Authority: 491
  . LONDON, England / The Times / News / December 16, 2009 (Alamy) By Rosemary Bennett , Social Affairs Correspondent More than half of MPs believe that the law should be changed to allow doctors to help terminally ill patients to die without fear of prosecution, according to a new poll. The findings, ...
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• Study Design and Palliative Care Intervention [Letters]

  
  JAMA — Authority: 440
  
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• Study Design and Palliative Care Intervention--Reply [Letters]

  
  JAMA — Authority: 440
  
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• Compare Hospice Care

  
  Community Marketing Blog — Authority: 143
  The inequality in hospice facilities is great when you compare our country with other countries. I recently had a conversation with a friend about end of life care in her native country of Macedonia. Throughout her childhood, Macedonians traditionally cared for their own. The elderly and others at end of life always ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is More Care Better? The Evidence Suggests No

  
  Health Affairs Blog — Authority: 526
  Editor’s Note: In the post below, Jonathan Skinner and Shannon Brownlee examine the relationship between health care spending and utilization in hospitals, on the one hand, and patient outcomes on the other. In an earlier post , John Wennberg and Brownlee rebutted claims that spending and utilization ...
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• ‘being there’ for each other

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 129
  Early afternoon yesterday my phone rang. A former coworker (a friend) was at the other end: ”I’m across the street from your house. Are you up for a visit? I brought cake.” She sat with me for a few hours, made tea, chatted about this and that … before I asked to be alone. We talked about the health care ...
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• You Might Be Happy

  
  Recovery Is Sexy.com — Authority: 436
  One Dead Day – The End of One Life, the Beginning of AnotherImagine waking up one morning, on any given day, and realising you’re now merely spirit–you have no physical body left at your personal disposal; that is, you somehow died during your sleep. Everything feels quite normal but somehow everything has ...
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