One hundred and ten dying patients were studied during the 24 hours before death and 250 patients during the weeks before death: 60% were well orientated in time and space 24 hours before death and 26% at 15 minutes before death. A control group of patients with serious, but not fatal, illness were also studied. There was a contrast in attitude to death between the dying patients and the ill bu...

great value to the student of legal medicine. It is in fact such a book as Coull Mackenzie, if his life had been spared, might have written after long service as Police Surgeon, Calcutta. The volume deals with parts of the subject of forensic medicine which are alwajTs inadequately dealt with in ordinary treatises on legal medicine. The first part deals very fully with the phenomena of death, t...

sudden, unexpected death may occur in apparently healthy individuals. its occurrence in psychiatric patients has raised the concern that the use of psychotropics, especially antipsychotics, may be associated with an increased risk of sudden death. this concern is maintained even though not all psychiatric patients who have succumbed to sudden death have been on psychotropics. early reports pres...

Trends in the civil registration of fetal death in multiple gestations that has occurred before, but expelled from the womb after, 24 weeks' gestation are examined using England and Wales 1993-2004 registration obtained from the Office for National Statistics. Count was made of fetal death registrations in which fetus papyraceous, fetal death before 24 weeks' gestation or fetocide before 24 wee...

the relationship between death obsession and death anxiety, with hope among the nursing students of urmia medical sciences university     shiekhy s [1] , issazadegan a [2] *, basharpour s [3] , maroei millan f [4]     received: 15 may , 2013 accepted: 21 jul , 2013  abstract  background & aims : death, an inevitable concept that associates with human being all the time, can cause significant an...