When a soldier dies

When a partner dies: lesbian widows.

Death of a life partner and the subsequent bereavement are profound experiences for an individual. By far, the majority of bereavement research reported is focused on heterosexual couples, primarily married and often in the later years of life. The purpose of this study was to describe the bereavement experiences of lesbians whose life partners have died. The study used a descriptive, qualitati...

Radiation safety when a patient dies after therapy.

OBJECTIVE When a patient dies a short time after radionuclide therapy, several issues arise due to the shifting of responsibility from patient care to protection of the public, while respecting societal values and rites. Such a situation occurred in our institution after administering a large therapeutic dose of 131I for metastatic thyroid cancer. The requirements of safe practice, the shift ac...

Obituary—when somebody close to us dies, part of our future dies with them: John A. Fixsen, MChir, FRCS

It is always difficult to write about individuals who are close to you and who forged you in your formative years. In August 2014, Mr. John A. Fixsen, MChir, FRCS, Consultant Emeritus in Paediatric Orthopaedics at The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Emeritus at St Bartholomew? s Hospital, London, died in his sleep. I knew of M...

What befalls the proteins and water in a living cell when the cell dies?

The solvency of solutes of varying molecular size in the intracellular water of freshly-killed Ehrlich carcinoma cells fits the same theoretical curve that describes the solvency of similar solutes in a 36% solution of native bovine hemoglobin--a protein found only in red blood cells and making up 97.3% of the red cell's total intracellular proteins. The merging of the two sets of data confirms...

Review of General Psychology When Love Dies: Further Elucidating the Existence of a Mate Ejection Module