Browsing the archives for the death & dying category
[Editor's note: I've truncated this post because it was picked up by Slate for their Medical Examiner column. Check it out over there & feel free to comment there and here! -GH] A year ago, U.K. officials released convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi to Libya on humanitarian grounds, based on a prediction that he [...]
Talk about kicking a city when it’s down. You can take the boy out of Cleveland, but you can probably never squeeze all of the burning Cuyahoga out of me. After watching the media frenzy surrounding basketballer LeBron James and his utter betrayal/stabbing us in the back exercising his economic options, now this: Harvey Pekar [...]
In America, too many people die in the hospital. I don’t mean that they die due to medical error or incompetence, though that’s always a hot topic of discussion amongst doctors, researchers, administrators, and regulators. What I mean is that if you ask most people, they say they’d rather die at home, surrounded by their [...]