Fiesta funeral: Lumbalú para Bata III

A Christian Funeral Director's Reflections on the Modern Funeral

Funeral insurance

Funeral insurance has existed at least since antiquity, and it remains popular in many parts of Africa today. Yet the study of funeral insurance as a distinct form of insurance has hitherto been neglected. This paper presents a model in which funeral insurance combines regular life insurance with a restriction on how the payout is spent. The model predicts that there is an intermediate range of...

Funeral for a friend.

Vesicle fiesta at the synapse.

erve cells need to transfer information to each other, and researchers have been unravelling the secrets of how they do this for decades. Technical advances and human ingenuity have now combined to take us several steps further in this intellectual challenge. With the publication of two reports in this issue 1,2 (pages 849 and 889) and a third in Science 3 , we can actually watch the intricate ...

Homocysteine: call off the funeral.

See related article, pages 456 – 460. T he authors of the much publicized though not yet published Norwegian Vitamin Study (NORVIT) 1 of vitamin therapy in coronary artery disease, are widely quoted as saying that vitamin therapy for lowering plasma total homocysteine (tHcy) was harmful, and that " homocys-teine is dead. " However, the slides of their presentation 1 do not show the B 12 status ...