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May 16th, 2008

My Pick - Healthbolt’s Top 5 Posts.

I suddenly realized that Liberty and I have just passed our 5 month anniversary as Healthbolt bloggers. Wow, how time flies when you’re having fun. And it is fun. Getting to research and post on all the interesting, informative, bizarre, and oddball health and medical things is like a dream come true…
I did some maths […]

By Liz -- 2 comments

May 11th, 2008

The Sunday Sidebar…Dealing with the Dead.

There are only two things that are guaranteed in this world - you are born and you will die. Just how long you have between the two events depends on a multitude of factors. Longevity is possible, and for most of us highly probable (so says the Vitality Compass).
Death and dealing with the dead might […]

By Liz -- 3 comments

April 29th, 2008

Abortion and Death as Art?

First there was the Yale Art student who…
“…apparently recorded the forced miscarriages on video and planned to exhibit the images on a large cube suspended from the ceiling of a gallery in Yale’s Holcombe T. Green Jr. Hall. She also planned to include hundreds of feet of plastic sheeting layered with blood from the purported […]

By Liz -- 0 comments

April 3rd, 2008

Do You Have a Bucket List?

I finally got around to seeing The Bucket List this evening.
Having read a number of reviews panning the movie…
The message of the film is a sentimental homily you might read in a greeting card; its tone felt patronising and potentially rather offensive to people actually enduring the painful, humiliating process of dying. (Times Online)
Saddest of […]

By Liz -- 4 comments

March 13th, 2008

‘Dr Death’ Goes to Washington?

Have you heard the latest?
Jack Kervorkian, aka Dr Death, is planning on running for US Congress as an Independent. If you remember, Dr Kervokian is an assisted suicide advocate who was paroled last year after spending eight years in prison for second degree murder.
Apparently having served time for murder does not prohibit him from running […]

By Liz -- 1 comment