Category: Dying
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Mother making the ultimate sacrifice. Seneca. Decisions.
A young California mother made the ultimate sacrifice for her newborn daughter when she refused lifesaving treatment for bone cancer. Ashley Bridges was 10 weeks pregnant when she learned of her diagnosis. Although doctors recommended she start chemotherapy immediately, it would have required her to terminate her pregnancy. "There’s no way I could kill a…
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Medicine. Tonsillectomy. Desist letters. Cold science.
Jahi McMath went into Oakland Children's Hospital almost a week ago for a routine tonsillectomy - a surgery thousands of children undergo each year. But today, her family is thankful to just be able to sit by her bedside, where McMath, 13, is now on life support. She was declared brain dead last Thursday after…
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Krishnamurti - The dignity of death
Why do human beings die so miserably, so unhappily, with a disease, old age, senility, the body shrunk, ugly? Why can’t they die naturally and as beautifully as this leaf? What is wrong with us? In spite of all the doctors, medicines and hospitals, operations and all the agony of life, and the pleasures too,…
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Living without pride. Dying with.
A tribe which was isolated, contacted others to ask for food. [1] Oh, how wise was Sitting Bull. Dying with pride is much better than living without it...
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