How Doctors Die
What’s unusual about medical professionals is not how much treatment they get when faced with a terminal illness—but how little.
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Tag Archives: death
Death and Ms. FitzSimons
When a man with terminal cancer goes off into the snowy woods to meet death, he finds more than he bargained for.
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190 Years Ago: The Post Covers The Death of Napoleon
One of the hot topics of news in our 1821 issues was the passing of “Fortune’s Football.”
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Letter-Man
My uncle loved crosswords so much that on the day he died, he asked to be buried six down and three across. Stephen Corrett Croton-on-Hudson, New York
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Graphing Grief
Over time, the emotional pain of losing a loved one typically lessens. Some people, however, suffer a debilitating sense of loss called complicated or long-term grief. Researchers recently utilized magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scans to gain a better understanding of the grieving process. In the Mayo Clinic study, MRI scans of people with varying ... More
