16-11-07 1.The last bit of oxygen in your body is used up, and brain activity surges briefly as neurons stop working and the brain stops secreting hormones that regulate body function. The last of the energy stores (ATP) is used up and the sphincter relaxes,...
16-10-05 In its final hours before being butchered, a chicken deserves to be reasonably comfortable and relatively stress-free. This is the message from Chinas first official recommendations to the poultry industry, recently issued by Shandong Province, on h...
16-08-22 Death and mourning were largely considered private matters in the 20th century, with the public remembrances common in previous eras replaced by intimate gatherings behind closed doors in funeral parlors and family homes. But social media is redefin...
16-05-27 As the Buddha once famously said, life is suffering. To love is to lose. In the natural order of things, we will eventually lose our own parents and in the natural order of thing, this will happen after were already adults. Except when it doesnt. I...
16-05-04 A new apartment building in Sydney has mysteriously left off the numbers four and 14 from the elevator. 在澳大利亚悉尼的一座新公寓楼内,电梯楼层按钮面板上的两个数字4和14神秘消失了。 The disappearance of the two floors is apparently because certain n...
16-04-22 One day Mark Twain read an announcement of his death in a newspaper. He hastened to the editor to protect. I am very sorry, the editor replied. Its a terrible mistake, but its too late to do much about it. The best thing I can do for you is to put y...
16-04-09 Some cells are meant to live, and some are meant to die. The linker cell of Caenorhabditis elegans, a tiny worm that is a favored model organism for biologists, is among those destined for termination. This cell helps determine the shape of the gona...
16-04-06 In a new study, researchers have revealed the key characteristics of a good death. 在一项新研究中,研究人员揭示了善终的几个关键词。 They focused on the views of the patients themselves; family members - who were quizzed before or during bereavement...
16-04-03 In the eternal universe, every human being has a one-off chance to live --his existence is unique and irretrievable, for the mold with which he was made, as Rousseau said, was broken by God immediately afterwards. Fame, wealth and knowledge are mere...
16-01-28 Statistician Nathan Yau has created an interactive chart to determine, in his words, how and when you will die, given your sex, race and age. Fun! 统计学家邱南森制作了一个互动图表,他称这个图表将根据年龄、种族以及年龄不同,显示每个人在各个年纪将面临...