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4 days ago · I was still in my training in palliative medicine and, like my patient’s daughter, I believed that a “ good death ” took place at home, surrounded by family.
3 days ago · This list of countries by life expectancy provides a comprehensive list of countries alongside their respective life expectancy figures. The data is differentiated by sex, presenting life expectancies for males, females, and a combined average.
2 days ago · Black Death, pandemic that ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351, taking a proportionately greater toll of life than any other known epidemic or war up to that time. The Black Death is widely thought to have been the result of plague, caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
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- It is not known for certain how many people died during the Black Death. About 25 million people are estimated to have died in Europe from the plag...
- The Black Death is believed to have been the result of plague, an infectious fever caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. The disease was likely...
- The plague that caused the Black Death originated in China in the early to mid-1300s and spread along trade routes westward to the Mediterranean an...
- Yersinia causes three types of plague in humans: bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic. Although there is DNA evidence that Yersinia was present in vi...
- The effects of the Black Death were many and varied. Trade suffered for a time, and wars were temporarily abandoned. Many labourers died, which dev...
- The Black Death has also been called the Great Mortality, a term derived from medieval chronicles’ use of magna mortalitas. This term, along with m...
5 days ago · The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that Covid-19 is still causing around 1,700 deaths a week around the world. WHO has cautioned at-risk populations to maintain their vaccinations ...
2 days ago · Death is the end of life; the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. [1] The remains of a former organism normally begin to decompose shortly after death. [2] Death eventually and inevitably occurs in all organisms.
1 day ago · Gaza's impossible living conditions: 'If we don't die under the bombs, we'll die a slow death'. Accumulating waste, stagnant sewage and insect infestations have made the health situation in the ...
2 days ago · Philosophy of religion article index. v. t. e. The afterlife or life after death is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's stream of consciousness or identity continues to exist after the death of their physical body. [1] The surviving essential aspect varies between belief systems; it may be some partial element ...
