The best Death Story I've heard...
...can be found at the end of this post at The Good Death. Read the entire post (the video appears at the end), and, if you have the time and further interest, read the Scientific American article cited and linked at the beginning of the post. It explains why even the most "extinctivist" among us have trouble thinking in terms of extinction. You might also want to read Dr. Christian Sinclair's reactions (also cited and linked in the aforementioned post) to the video in his post about it at Pallimed. He mentions, too, who was involved in the creation of the video.
    Speaking of which, I've been tardy, and I'm now being apologetic, about forgetting to add Pallimed to my list, to the right, of Honorable Hospice & Death Blogs. I'm correcting this problem now. I've "tasted", with delight, all three of its editions (I think there are only three), all of which I list, since it's hard to tell, going into one, that the others exist. I don't get back to them as often as I think I'd like, but, these days, I don't get anywhere, on the web or off, as often as I think I'd like. Not sure why, since my previous reason for not getting around much is dead, but I'm not in the mood to parse that one, right now. Anyway, I've spot read, and highly recommend, all three editions of this series of blogs. I count six official contributors, all top notch thinkers and writers, and the "staff" considers readers to be contributors. All contributors, "staff" and readers, are excellent at directing visitors to interesting outbound sites, as well. Pallimed, is, by the way, the originator of Palliative Care Grand Rounds. Without further ado, I'll immediately add them to my appropriate links list.
    Why do I consider the video in the post mentioned in the first paragraph, up there, the best Death Story I've ever heard? Because it is, ultimately, a Life Story...a good one.
    Later.
- posted by Gail Rae @ 13:37   email  this post