Wholesale Internet Supply House (WISH), a medium-sized broker of new and used equipment serving Internet providers and cable operators, wants to expand overseas by entering a “Big Emerging Market” (BEM) that will be a star. It would like to grow its sales which have been stable, averaging a little over $100 million per year. Most of its twenty employees are in sales and service, and a few work ...

SIR — Rose offers a piece of moral advice in his Commentary. To instruct humankind that they should not do something is a serious undertaking: it should be clear what is enjoined and the consequences acknowledged. Rose seems to argue that, by about 1975, it should have been clear to everyone that the question of genetic causes behind the black/white IQ gap was unanswerable. From that date, ther...

In 15.3% of 295 hospitalized suicide attempters (94% with intoxication) severe intoxication that would have had a lethal outcome without medical treatment was significantly associated with previously described factors characterizing persons who committed suicide. A strong death wish (47.3%), as judged by physicians, was highly associated with almost the same factors. A high degree of physical h...

BACKGROUND Death anxiety among elderly is a major public health concern. Few studies, however, have been conducted on factors associated with death anxiety. OBJECTIVES This study investigated race and gender differences in psychosocial correlates of death anxiety among elderly in the US. MATERIALS AND METHODS With a cross-sectional design, we used data of the Religion, Aging, and Health sur...

The straight razor is hardcore. It is cut-throat sharp, dangerous, and yet has always maintained its notoriety of providing the benchmark kind of shave to which every other razor is compared. Some joke that straight razor shaving is an esoteric art practiced only by mentally unstable people with a death wish, and a new brand on the market expands on this idea. This article takes a look at an in...

Patients with body integrity identity disorder (BIID) experience a strong desire for amputation from very early on. BIID patients are often dismissed when they share their wish for amputation with surgeons. Consequently, patients resort to self-amputation, including complications and sometimes death. BIID patients are not psychotic and are mentally competent to oversee the consequences of an el...

—“When you’re movin’ in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.” Stevie Wonder, “Master Blaster (Jammin’),” 1980 This is the last of several commentaries solicited by the Editor on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of our society. Whereas previous installments have reected on key episodes in the past, this one concerns the future. The distant future is hard to predict, except ...

The wish to die in older people who are tired of living and the possibilities to organize death are currently being discussed within the debate on self-determination and physician-assisted suicide. Until now insight into the experiences and thoughts of people who are tired of life but not suffering from a severe depression or a life-threatening disease is lacking. Studies focussing specifically...

While death hastening policies are emerging in various constituencies around the world, it behooves us to understand complexities of what motivates people seek out these life ending options. Some earliest studies Benelux countries identified a connection between choosing euthanasia or assisted suicide and loss dignity. More recent have affirmed this association, suggesting that an app...