Why Did the Canary Die? (Sergei Yesenin about Nikolai Klyuev)

The Durban deep proto-team catastrophe--why did they die?

Why did 12 infants die? Winnipeg's endless inquest seeks answers.

Canada's longest running inquest will wrap up in Winnipeg in September. Although the judge conducting it will be answering many questions, one of the key ones is the most simple: Should a province the size of Manitoba operate a program as sophisticated as pediatric cardiac surgery?

Why did he die? The attributions of cause of death among women widowed in later life.

The study aimed to examine the causal attributions of death made spontaneously by older widowed women to explain the deaths of their husbands. The data presented are from two qualitative interview studies using the same methodology. There were 65 widows aged between 55 and 93 years old who had been widowed between 0.25 and 60 years. Data were analysed using a grounded theory method and content ...

Why did life emerge?

Many mechanisms, functions and structures of life have been unraveled. However, the fundamental driving force that propelled chemical evolution and led to life has remained obscure. The 2 law of thermodynamics, written as an equation of motion, reveals that elemental abiotic matter evolves from the equilibrium via chemical reactions that couple to external energy toward complex biotic nonequili...

Why let people die?

This paper concerns those patients whose brain is irreversibly damaged to the point where they will never recover significant mental life. I examine the reasons which justify the decision to withhold or discontinue active medical intervention in these patients. They involve the identity, quality of life and agency of those beings whom we value as persons.