death

Erring On The Side of Caution

May 5, 2011




Some conversations on social media are fleeting. Here today, forgotten tomorrow. Some stick with you forever. Others, forgotten for a while, can come back to haunt. This is the story of one of those conversations. A frustrated mother, twitter, and the police Back in 2009, a mother frustrated by bedtime battles with her daughter vented [...]

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A child asks: What happens when you’re done being dead?

November 22, 2010




One of the many magazines we subscribe to is the French magazine philosophie. One of the regular features is a section responding to reader questions and one of the columns within that section is questions d’enfance (childhood questions).  The November 2010 issue is a special about death and the child’s question was on the topic [...]

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When you don’t get to say goodbye

August 7, 2008




Last year we almost lost one of our cats. She was very sick. We didn’t know what was wrong with her and neither did the vet. After a week at the pet hospital, numerous tests, different medications, IVs, syringe feeding, and so on, she wasn’t getting better. She didn’t seem to be suffering horribly, but [...]

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Faulty logic from the Ontario coroner regarding bed sharing

June 5, 2008




I don’t know what the qualifications are to become a coroner in Ontario, but I doubt there is a required course in statistics (also known as quantitative methods). If it was required, then Ontario Coroner Dr. Bert Lauwers skipped a few too many classes, is purposely trying to deceive the public, or is blinded by [...]

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