Nurses play an important role in supporting families who are faced with the critical illness and death of their child. Grieving families desire compassionate, sensitive care that respects their wishes and meets their needs. Families often wish to continue relationships and maintain lasting connections with hospital staff following their child's death. A structured bereavement program that suppo...

Universality in literature means that a piece of literary work is able to reflect universal emotions and evoke responses from men every face. The essay believes Emily Brontë’s “Remembrance” such poem achieves universality. It attempts summarize three elements contained the poem: experience grief at death beloved, question “still remember or have forgotten” truth living struggles. These aspects ...

Blue Midnight Wish is one of the 14 candidates in the second round of the NIST SHA-3 competition [1]. In this paper we present a decomposition of the Blue Midnight Wish core functions, what gives deeper look at the Blue Midnight Wish family of hash functions and a tool for their cryptanalysis. We used this decomposition for better understanding the insights of Blue Midnight Wish functions and t...

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...

PURPOSE Little is known about the role family physicians play when a patient deliberately hastens death by voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED). The purpose of this study was to gain more insight for family physicians when confronted with patients who wish to hasten death by VSED. We aimed to describe physicians' involvement in VSED, to describe characteristics and motives of their p...

Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) is one of the most comprehensive biographical representations Yukio Mishima’s literature and life, which were retroactively overshadowed by his sensational death. In this film with a multi-layered complex temporal structure oscillating between documentary fiction, Schrader concisely adapts The Temple Golden Pavilion (1956), Kyōko’s House (...

AIM Previous studies indicate that Norwegian physicians hold conservative attitudes towards ethically controversial end-of-life decisions. The present study was undertaken to explore whether in Norway euthanasia may be hidden under labels such as death after analgesic injections and withholding or withdrawing treatment. METHODS A postal questionnaire containing 76 questions on ethical, colleg...