Death
Death is the permanent, irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. The remains of a previously living organism normally begin to decompose shortly after death. Death is an inevitable, universal process that eventually occurs in all living organisms.Death is generally applied to whole organisms; the similar process seen in individual components of a living organism, such as cells or tissues, is necrosis. Something that is not considered a living organism, such as a virus, can be physically destroyed but is not said to die. As of the early 21st century, over 150,000 humans die each day.Many …
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CPRC: University of Regina Press · 29 October 2024 English
A collection of memories chronicling love, grief, and a life lived on and off stage Raised on a farm and educated in a prairie Bible school, Layne Coleman escapes the …
dark universe, one of wall-to-wall secrets and death. On open- ing night, I was rupturing with grief … I’d cried like a guilty man who’d been given a death sentence, refused to pose for a group picture, …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 29 October 2024 English
“Honest and insightful, a testament to Japanese Canadian resilience.” — KERRI SAKAMOTO, author of Floating CityWhen the North American dream meets traditional Japanese conformity, two cultures collide. Does the past …
sixteen years had flown by since my grandfather’s death. Leave it to MUKASHI, MUKASHI 19him to depart on … remained a permanent fixture. At the time of Bāchan’s death in 1980, the kimono was one of the few items no … managed family affairs and a father’s absence or death signalled the informal transfer of responsibility …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 25 October 2024 English
Between Composers unveils the previously unpublished correspondence between Canadian composers Norma Beecroft and Harry Somers from 1959 to 1960. The letters detail the downfall of their romance, trace their artistic …
information, which only became available after his death, when his papers were turned over to Library and … that I cannot ~ I think I would sooner die a slow death alone, than marry someone I didn’t love ~ All this … inevitable ces- sation of sensuous experience in death. It may have been this juxta- position of the richness … pulse of creation. But outside of life is eternal death ~ black, soundless, void, final. The wonderful … a clown in her stage show) and, ultimately, his death. 3 The Sea Around Us was the second book published …
UAP: University of Alberta Press · 22 October 2024 English
Stories Left in Stone explores the lives, histories, and artistic legacies of Cáceres and Extremadura. Author Troy Nahumko has lived in the old town of Cáceres, a UNESCO World Heritage …
that only covers up the ugly truth of the slow death of brick and mortar shops and independent sellers … came to the shelter of a monastery to die a holy death, atoning for his sins. He strengthened the42 … unless it had been stored elsewhere after his death, it is hard to imagine it would have survived the …
CPRC: University of Regina Press · 22 October 2024 English
A guide from bestselling author Alice Kuipers on how to write for children and young adults—from igniting an initial idea to creating a finished draft In Spark, acclaimed children’s and …
Victor Write the Best-Ever Bookworm Book (2014) The Death of Us (2014) 40 Things I Want to Tell You (2012) … people around the victim. In my ya novel, The Death of Us, which I wrote years ago, I followed this … Web by E.B White. It takes on big themes—life and death— yet makes them accessible and charming for young …
UCP: University of Calgary Press · 20 October 2024 English
Essential for understanding and mobilizing public health efforts.
“Leading,” “Selected,” and “Certain” Causes of Death presented in Table 3.1 and Figure 3.1 (Chapter … (black bars). Figure 3.1: Select leading causes of death, 1915 to 2015 (5-year intervals). Rate per 100 … 000 population. Figure 3.2a: Leading causes of death (individual codes), 1910 to 1920. Rate per 100 … 000 population. Figure 3.2b: Leading causes of death (individual codes), 1923 to 1929. Rate per 100 … 000 population. Figure 3.2c: Leading causes of death (individual codes), 1931 to 1939. Rate per 100 …
CIHI: Canadian Institute for Health Information · 17 October 2024 English
This report introduces the work undertaken to develop a new measure of hospital harm that is linked to evidence-informed practices.
Charlson Index (i.e., indexed against risk of death).13 As well, each additional type of physician contributed … or without any combination of transfer in/out or death) are excluded from the analysis because estimates … or without any combination of transfer in/out or death) are excluded from the analysis because estimates …
CIHI: Canadian Institute for Health Information · 17 October 2024 English
This report discusses the measure of potentially preventable harm in hospitals and provides an overview of the status of these patient safety events in Canada.
8 hospitalizations with a harmful event ends in death ............................................... … coroner’s investigation determined that the causes of death were the spinal abscess that had developed at the … from Canadian Patient Safety Institute. Father’s death fuels quest for healthcare improvement. Accessed … care led to a longer hospital stay, disability or death; 37% of those events were deemed preventable.2 … circumstances, that can lead to serious harm or death and that are completely preventable with proper …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Approaching the novels of early Quebec through the counterintuitive lens of the sacred, Lisa Gasbarrone challenges negative views of these novels as dated and even unreadable for the contemporary reader. …
including freedom, temporality, finitude, and death, as well as loss, grief, anxiety, hope, and despair … Menaud’s piousness, his bizarre juggling with death, and his blissful [unthinking] admiration for nature) … characterize Menaud’s grief as a “bizarre juggling with death” misses the mark. While the modern reader may take …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 15 October 2024 English
Now you can cheer for the Habs every day of the year! The Montreal Canadiens are one of the most storied franchises in hockey. No club has won more Stanley …
Morenz, who famously wore No. 7 until his tragic death in 1937. So to pay homage to both his grandfather …