When husbands die

When and how to die.

When and how to die.

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When does a human being die?

For most of human history there has been no particular importance of establishing the exact time of a person's death, only whether the person is alive or dead. With modern medical advances, however, more precise answers are looked for. For a definition of death to succeed is important that it is a universal definition and that under it, all human beings are correctly identified as alive or dead...

Hiv Communication between Husbands

In northern Thailand, where substantial male-to-female transmission of HIV has occurred in stable partnerships, the relationships between counseling, communication, and HIVpreventive behaviors in married couples have not been well studied. In a study of HIV incidence among women in northern Thailand, each participant was advised to learn her husband’s HIV-infection status and was asked to bring...

Editorial: when is it our time to die?

We write this editorial during Palliative Care Week and at a juncture in health care when a ‘perfect storm’ brews involving escalating healthcare costs, worldwide economic ‘austerity measures’, calls for discussion and action on ‘rationing’ health care and profound ethical disquiet among health professionals about ‘futile’ and almost inhumane treatments and interventions visited on seriously il...