Monthly Archives: November 2014

The Conversation is an independent source of news and views, sourced from the academic and research community and delivered direct to the public.  The Conversation is running a series on Death and Dying.  It was kicked off by Dianna Kenny, … Continue reading →

Ross Gittins (Finding better indicators to read the health of the economy, SMH, October 11, 2014) writes that simply relying on the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) means we get a skewed and incomplete picture of all the transactions that take … Continue reading →

“I have never met a single client who did not express a wish that they would like to live, as long as they were healthy, but under no circumstances were to be kept alive if they had deteriorated to a … Continue reading →

US surgeon Dr Atul Gawande questions modern medicine’s treatment of dying patients. In an interview on ABC radio’s The World Today program, Eleanor Hall and Sarah Sedghi, report that: Dr Gawande says medicine needs to understand there are more important … Continue reading →

Dawn is playing dead on the bamboo trestle table. Claire is demonstrating the origami-stye folds needed to get the shroud neatly wrapped around Dawn with the sewn-on hand grips in the right position for carrying.  This was just one of … Continue reading →