Take a Free Class in Death at Yale

To balance the “badness of death,” Kagan also provides several lectures on the “value of life.”

The Four Manners of Death

Have you ever wondered how many ways someone can die? The cause of death is the reason an individual dies. This means that a heart attack, any chronic disease, a gunshot wound or a skull fracture are causes of death. However, each cause can alter an individual’s physiology in different ways. For instance, a gunshot would may not be fatal to one person, but another person may died from that cause. The mechanism of death, then, would represent that actual change that causes a victim to die.

How to Recognize a Suicidal Soldier

One hundred and twenty-eight (128) soldiers committed suicide in 2008, and another fifteen cases are pending. This is a record number of suicides over the past three decades since the Army has been keeping records. This year, 2009, the Army appears to be headed toward a new record for suicides within ranks.