Coming to Terms with Fatal Disease: Talking with your Doctor

If you do not die suddenly from an accident, heart attack or stroke, chances are you will die a slow death from disease or simply from aging. Unfortunately, in the latter case, doctors are well trained in every possible aspect of saving a life, but little on how to treat death and dying. So, if you are diagnosed with a fatal or chronic condition, how do you talk with your doctor effectively?

Filed under: Causes of Death, Death & Dying, Grief and Grieving on October 30th, 2009 | No Comments »

Disease Resugence: What it Means

A community along the Ivory Coast in Africa suffered from repeated outbreaks of a human respiratory virus from 1999 to 2006. Approximately 92 percent of residents in that area manifested symptoms, and the fatality rate was 20 percent. Although you might think that humans transferred this virus, you would be wrong. The carriers were among a group of chimpanzees.

Filed under: Causes of Death, Death & Dying on October 26th, 2009 | No Comments »