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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UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 11 September 2024 French

Le moment Montfort dans la francophonie se penche sur la crise de l’Hôpital Montfort à travers une approche multidisciplinaire qui joint des chercheures et des chercheurs qui explorent dans cet …

Jeff Denis (dir.), Survival Strategies: The Life, Death and Renaissance of a Canadian Teaching Hospital


NSP: New Society Publishers · 10 September 2024 English

The essential bestselling guide to designing and leading useful and effective group conversations, now completely revised and updated Integrating over 60 years of research and development, this essential guide to …

Conversations that are moving along nicely meet a sudden death when someone declares, “That statement is simply went that way. Such conversations can be life or death to the learn- ing organization. How the Focused


DDN: Dundurn Press · 10 September 2024 English

“A sumptuously written story about culinary ambition, restaurant-world vice, and the frailties of the heart.” — KEVIN CHONG, author of The Double Life of Benson YuRestaurateur Teo Wolf’s culinary fame …

It was the one- year anniversary of my mother’s death when Magic Wolf first came into the world. I didn’t apartment in Paris that day. The sharp pain of her death had receded by that point to the dull ache of absence told him that because I sensed that my mother’s death couldn’t possibly be the real reason Magnus was the throat with his filleting knife and bled to death on the tiles near the vegetable station. “Since essential toughness, a reserve of legionnaire death- readiness he still carried around with him. Frankie


DDN: Dundurn Press · 10 September 2024 English

“Chaiton's fearless and moving memoir is a precious gift to anyone who yearns for a better understanding of intergenerational trauma and the path to true liberation.” — JEANNE BEKER, author, …

survivor standing at our front door, about the death of a landsman’s son I had once met. I later mentioned the winner being the one with the most creative death throes. Playing handball there with the DesLauriers


FLA: Flanker Press · 6 September 2024 English

In a city of sinners… The Disciple is on a mission to rid the city of sinners. With a twisted view of the Bible, he finds unique ways to kill …

heart. “This looks to be the most obvious cause of death,” Sunny sug- gests, pointing toward the victim’s


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English

Bringing together essays on uses of history as both a practical activity and an approach to thinking about the present, this collection explores ways in which people have reckoned with …

expansion and qualitative transformation. Between the death of Queen Elizabeth and the out- break of the English on account of her adultery, but was saved from death because she regularly fasted on Fri- days to honour several duchesses, and various other ladies to their death after they succumbed to the enticements of “deceyvours


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English

In What Ukrainian Elections Taught Me about Democracy long-time election observer Jane Cooper recounts her experience monitoring a municipal election in Kirovohrad in 2015. Offering a framework for exploring what …

episodes of unimaginable upheaval, destruction, and death that afflicted Ukraine over the first half of the about exactly how many Ukrainians met an untimely death during those fifty years, but some estimates suggest War in 1918 in the aftermath of the widespread death and destruction that occurred along what Europeans suffered through successive waves of violence and death that included the First World War, the Bolshevik after the end of the Second World War. With high death rates, low birth rates, and extensive emigration


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English

Narratives about the disappearance of the Beothuk are entrenched in historical accounts and the popular imagination. Only with the integration of Indigenous perspectives, beginning in the 1920s, was this accepted …

the Beothuk themselves were slowly starving to death. While this was all happening, and long afterwards Beothuk his- tory grinds to a halt in 1829, with the death of a young woman named Shanawdithit, who is commonly last Beothuk.” As one narrator conceded on the death of Shanawdithit, “Here ends all positive knowledge fate must have wrung a mother’s breast! A cruel death or an ignominious bondage among enemies the only


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English

The nineteenth century was a time of upheaval for the Algonquin people. Focusing on those living around Lake Timiskaming and Lake Abitibi along the Ontario-Quebec border over a century, this …

following year.46 However, it seems likely that the death toll was greater than these figures would indicate occurred in 1808.61 There was a man who froze to death on Lake Abitibi, having be- come intoxicated and the death of a young child was regarded as an unremarkable occurrence, in contrast to the death of


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English

Lake Ontario has profoundly influenced the historical evolution of North America. For centuries it has enabled and enriched the societies that crowd¬ed its edges, from fertile agricultural landscapes to energy …

Some estimates put the continental Indigenous death from in- fection as high as a shocking 90 per cent speculative. At any rate, the combination of Indigenous death, their seasonal movements, and colonial thinking


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