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Coping with loss on Mother’s Day and Father’s Day

May 7, 2024 Coping with Loss,  Death,  Dr. Karen Lawson,  Loss,  Mental Health

Holidays can be agonizing for many who have experienced the loss of a parent, especially Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. Dr. Karen Lawson provides tips to fill that void during these difficult days.

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Policywise

Balancing Life and Ethics: The Debate over Normothermic Regional Perfusion in Organ Donation

December 15, 2023 controlled donation after circulatory determination of death,  dead-donor rule,  Death,  ethics,  normothermic regional perfusion,  Organ Donation

Organ donation and transplant policies are crucial dimensions of modern medicine. According to the Health Resources & Services Administration, there were more than 42,800 transplants

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What could we owe to the dead?

November 18, 2022 bioethics,  Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine,  Dead,  Death,  Philosophical Bioethics,  Philosophy

“Ay, thou poor Ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I’ll wipe away

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As good as dead? The ethical complexities of declaring someone dead

December 3, 2021 bioethics,  Brain Death,  Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy,  Circulatory Death,  Dead,  Death,  ethics,  Technology

It is often said that nothing is certain in life except death and taxes. And while it is certain we will all die, the definition

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Policywise

Finding meaning in ‘death with dignity’

October 22, 2021 American Society of Bioethics and Humanities conference,  Death,  Intubation,  Medical intervention

A medical student’s perspective on being “in limbo” and how to think about medical intervention and death.

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Policywise

Lost, but not forgotten: Preserving a stranger’s memory

May 18, 2021 Death,  Headstone,  Memory,  Narrative Medicine,  Stranger,  Tomb

A story about the importance of simple good deeds and questions of memorializing and responsibility postmortem.

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Policywise

Grief over time

March 12, 2021 Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy,  Death,  Emotions,  Grief,  Loss,  Love

Our Jill Oliver Robinson writes a deeply personal narrative about her relationship with grief, loss and love.

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Policywise

Death wellness: A modern movement with ancient roots

October 30, 2019 Bryanna Moore,  Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy,  Death,  Death positivity,  Death wellness

Have you heard of the death wellness or death positivity movement? It’s a culture, community and related set of practices built around the mutual goals

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Policywise

Is there a right to die?

May 31, 2019 Assisted Dying,  Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy,  Death,  End of Life,  Eric Mathison

How people think about death is undergoing a major transformation in the United States. In the past decade, there has been a significant rise in

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Policywise

What if someone could be ‘kind of’ alive?

April 24, 2019 Brain,  Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy,  consciousness,  Death,  Dr. Kristin Kostick,  Life

When the executioner’s assistant held up the freshly guillotined head of assassin Charlotte Corday by her hair and slapped her face on both cheeks in

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Healthy Habits: A DOC-umentary Series

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