Another survey about clinicians' attitudes and practices at the time of death showed that less than 10% provided contact following death.[9] Billings and Koltun[10] found that a note was the most common form of contact (44%). ... The following guidelines, taken from a source devoted to condolences,[11] are offered to assist the clinician in crafting a meaningful correspondence to grieving families: - Identify the deceased by name and acknowledge his/her death - Express sympathy to the family - Note special qualities of the deceased, recall a memory, or identify a legacy left by the de...

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For a few years, the right to die has been the most profound and difficult issue. Physicians as well as ordinary people struggle to find an answer to the question: "Is there such a thing as a life not worthy to be lived?" Those who support euthanasia seem to imply that, indeed, there is the ...

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Financial Implications of Longer Life Expectancy It is evident that American seniors make up a large part of the United States' population and that the average life expectancy has increased as it is one of the fastest growing demographic segments of American society today. Members of the baby boom...

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Elderly suicide is becoming a major problem in today's society. A case study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in January of 1996, proposed that the suicide rates among people age 65 and older has increased since 1980 (Devons, 1996). A study conducted in 1991 showed the su...

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Recent studies have begun to see the Homeric epics in the light of other epic traditions, notably epics from Mesopotamia, and have begun to look at striking similarities. There is a supposed lineage that can be seen connecting the Homeric epics most directly with the world of Akkadian epics (Gresseth 2). The connections run from similarities in methods of transmission, namely the oral traditions, to themes, characters and formal structural components. The epic of Gilgamesh, the king of Uruk, and the Iliad, with its focus on the menis of Achilles, provide a look at heroic life and its relations...

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