"Baby Boomer Alert: We're Not Dead Yet But We May Die Someday". Sara Davidson ("The December Project" with Rabbi Laura Geller and Susan Freudenheim of the Jewish Journal, discussing issues of dying, practical and spiritual. At Writers Bloc at the Temple Emanuel in Beverly Hills. 7 30 p.m., tickets $15.
Austria's evasions are the same evasions that Karl Kraus wrote about in every issue of Die Fackel — they have a special language, whether it is the language of anti-Semitism or the language of the victim, and writers here believe that any true recovery for their country has to start again with language, as Austrians use it.
The discovery of uranium fission in December 1938, reported in the 6 January 1939 issue of Die Naturwissenschaften by Otto Hahn, and Fritz Strassmann, and its correct identification as nuclear fission by Lise Meitner in the 11 February 1939 issue of Nature, generated intense interest among physicists.
Both opponents and enthusiasts of euthanasia and admirers and detractors of Dr. Kevorkian can welcome a program that sets millions arguing over the hard issue of dying.
The latest social attitudes report concludes that, as a result of debate over the bill and other high-profile cases such as the efforts of Diane Pretty - terminally ill with motor neurone disease - to ensure her husband freedom from prosecution should he help her to die, the public is now relatively well informed on issues of assisted dying.
To what degree do issues of death, dying or immortality guide the belief and/or practice of each religion?
There's a growing interest in the "death-positive" movement, an umbrella term for the funeral professionals, artists and academics trying to raise awareness and debate around issues of death and dying.
Smith's most recent play, "Let Me Down Easy," concerned issues of illness and dying amid the problem-plagued U.S. healthcare system; the interviewees she portrayed included two prominent cancer patients, former Texas Gov. Ann Richards and the now-disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong.
In tandem, we explored the students' feelings, experiences and attitudes on issues of death and dying, body donation, dissection and their judgment of the new course module.
It is acknowledged that the Japanese medical curriculum does not formally address issues of 'death and dying' or palliative care [ 31].
The area of spirituality was also of interest in this population of very ill people, as issues of death and dying are often accompanied by questioning in the realm of spirituality.
