Discussing death with the living
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Discussing death with the living.
Although conversations about how we die have become intense in Canada following the Supreme Court of Canada’s ruling last year and the current legislative process, there is a curious lack of discussion about the existential fact that we will all die and how considering that fact might help us improve our lives. In an essay about a village located on the slope of an intermittently active volcano...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.160547