Also Try Cardiac Arrest Near-Death Experiences News -02-16-06 Risk of Death May Soar When Spouse Disabled (LiveScience.com) "When a person over 65 is debilitated, the odds of dying within a year can increase dramatically for the spouse, a new study shows." 2-06 Papers A Right to Die? (PublicAgenda.org) "Dying, for most Americans, is no longer a natural event, something that simply happens to us. In the majority of cases, people die in hospitals where physicians and nurses make a valiant effort to keep patients alive until there is no reasonable chance of recovery, often using the latest medical technologies." "In the course of those efforts, pain, suffering, and the wishes of patients and their families are often overlooked as physicians juggle medical, legal, moral, and economic considerations. In most cases, medical professionals have considerable discretion in deciding when additional efforts to sustain life are futile, and a patient should be allowed to die." 03-05 Dying - On Death and Dying (PBS) Dying with Grace (New York Times) "Dr. McCann said that the sisters’ religious faith insulated them from existential suffering — the 'Why me?' refrain commonly heard among those without a belief in an afterlife. Absent that anxiety and fear, Dr. McCann said, there is less pain, less depression, and thus the sisters require only one-third the amount of narcotics he uses to manage end-of-life symptoms among hospitalized patients." " 'This is what our culture, our society, is starved for, to be rich in relationships,' Sister Mary Lou said. 'This is what everyone should have.' " 07-09 Study: What Is the Death Experience? (MSNBC News) "Many reports of near-death experiences sound the same: a welcoming white light and a replay of memories. But now scientists aim to study what really happens to the brain and consciousness when someone is on the verge of dying." "The AWARE researchers want to find out what happens to the brain when a person's body has started to shut down, whether it is possible for people to see and hear during cardiac arrest, and what's going on during out of body experiences." 05-08

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