On life and death

The Effect of a Death Anxiety Therapeutic Package Based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Death Avoidance, Mental Health and Quality of Life of Cancer Patients

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of a death anxiety therapeutic package designed based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) on death avoidance, mental health, and quality of life of cancer patients. Methods: This parallel-experimental study was conducted on 28 cancer patients (19 females and 9 males aged 26-71 years) referred to Seyedoshohada Hospital in I...

Comparison of Quality of Life, Life Satisfaction and Death Anxiety among Intra-Oriented and Outward Elderly

The purpose of this study was to compare the quality of life, life satisfaction, and death anxiety among internally oriented and out-of-home elderly in the home and home of the elderly in Kermanshah in 1396. The statistical population of the study included all elderly people in Kermanshah. A total of 168 people were selected through cluster sampling and elderly residents of the elderly in an ac...

Relitigating life and death.

Life, Death, and Intelligence

Worms, Life and Death

I never expected to spend most of my life studying worms. However, when it came time for me to choose an area for my postdoctoral research, I was intrigued both with the problems of neurobiology and with the approaches of genetics. Having heard that a new “genetic organism” with a remarkably simple nervous system was being explored by Sydney Brenner – the microscopic soil nematode Caenorhabditi...