Posts tagged “death”
George
George Harrison just died. That sucks.
Finding Patterns in Hemingway and Camus
An essay on A Farewell to Arms by Robert D. Lane and Steven M. Lane
India
I’m going to guess that the gunmen in India who shot a 10 year-old-boy and left a note warning the government not to support the US in any retaliatory action against the Taliban didn’t read The Dalai Lama’s letter to the President of the United States of America.
“He was still talking when he came out of the water.”
Johns Hopkins
U.S. Suspends Human Research at Johns Hopkins After a Death The volunteer, Ellen Roche, died on June 2, a month after she inhaled an unapproved drug as part of a research study to examine the causes of asthma. Her lungs were destroyed, apparently by the chemical she inhaled, hexamethonium. She was 24 and a technician
Gators
About 1.5 million alligators live in Florida, and 287 attacks against humans have been recorded in the past 52 years. A full-grown horse was attacked by an alligator and dragged into a pond in Titusville; and a two year old girl is Florida’s 2nd gator fatality this year.
Minds
Scientist Says Mind Continues After Brain Dies A British scientist studying heart attack patients says he is finding evidence that suggests that consciousness may continue after the brain has stopped functioning and a patient is clinically dead. The research, presented to scientists last week at the California Institute of Technology, resurrects the debate over whether
Bus Stop Heads
Police in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal found 86 human skulls at a bus stand after complaints of a stench coming from an unclaimed bag.
Bad Drugs
The dangers of college life