Mirrors of the good death

The good death.

A Good Death

The Institute of Medicine defines a good death a "one that is free from avoidable death and suffering for patients, families and caregivers in general accordance with the patients' and families' wishes." The current system creates barriers to reducing the stress and suffering that accompany a patient's end of life. Data and eHealth technology, if it were more accessible, could help patients, fa...

Criteria for a good death.

This brief paper advances the concept of a "good death," outlines ten specific criteria for a good death, and proposes a simple golden rule for optimal dying.

Good and bad death: introduction.

The idea for this collection arose during a workshop chaired by Sjaak van der Geest, for which Clive Seale wrote an initial review paper (Seale 2000), and took place in November 2000 at the 15th Social Science & Medicine conference in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The workshop provided participants with a fascinating opportunity to explore the considerable cross-cultural variation in patterns of ...

the effect of taftan pozzolan on the compressive strength of concrete in the environmental conditions of oman sea (chabahar port)

cement is an essential ingredient in the concrete buildings. for production of cement considerable amount of fossil fuel and electrical energy is consumed. on the other hand for generating one tone of portland cement, nearly one ton of carbon dioxide is released. it shows that 7 percent of the total released carbon dioxide in the world relates to the cement industry. considering ecological issu...