Waking Up Dead

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    Toddler Who 'Woke Up' at Own Funeral Declared Dead

    Reports say doctor re-examined the child, confirmed her death

    By Jenn Gidman, Newser Staff Posted Jul 14, 2014 11:59 AM CDT


    (Newser) – A toddler who "woke up" at her own funeral has been confirmed dead and was laid to rest yesterday, reports the Sun-Star Zamboanga. Mourners at the 3-year-old's first funeral Sunday say they witnessed the girl showing vital signs and moving her head during church services, according to the original report in the Philippine Star—this YouTube video was said to be taken at the funeral as someone gently lifted the toddler out of the wooden coffin, bundled her up, and scurried out of frame. The girl was reportedly given water and immediately rushed to a nearby clinic after a pulse confirmed she was alive, the local police chief told the Star. According to the Sydney Morning Herald and KRMG, the girl was then returned home and remained in a coma until her death was confirmed Monday.

    An Aurora city official tells the Sun-Star that a doctor was sent to the girl's home after health officials heard that relatives wouldn't bury her because she was alive. According to news.com.au, the doctor used a cardiac monitor to confirm her death, then advised her parents to bury the body soon to prevent the spread of disease—and the Aurora city official confirms to the Sun-Star that she was laid to rest yesterday. The girl had suffered from a severe fever for several days last week and was pronounced dead (the first time) on Saturday, according to the Aurora police chief. This isn’t (by far) the first time that “dead” people have made the news for waking up (click here, here, and here for examples—and also here and here).




    Dead Man Wakes Up, Startles Morgue Workers

    Hospital jumped the gun a bit

    By John Johnson, Newser Staff Posted Jan 10, 2014 1:42 PM CST

    (Newser) – Kenya adds to the fine tradition of dead-person-wakes-up stories—like this, this, this, and this, to name just a few—with this gem: Guy ingests insecticide, goes to the hospital, is declared dead by doctors, and gets sent to the morgue. Guy then wakes up and scares the bejeezus out of morgue workers, as recounted by the Sunday World. Doctors speculate that his heart rate was slowed to an imperceptible rate, either by the insecticide or the drug used to treat him. The hospital superintendent puts the best possible spin on it via this quote picked up by the BBC: Yes, the doctors were confused, but "the victim was saved before he could be embalmed."

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    'Dead' Woman Wakes Up at Funeral Home

    Colombian, 45, moves arm just before being embalmed

    By Newser Editors and Wire Services Posted Feb 18, 2010 3:00 PM CST


    Newser) – A Colombian woman declared dead of a heart attack moved one of her arms just as an undertaker was about to embalm her, doctors said today. Noelia Serna, 45, was rushed to a hospital in the city of Cali, where she was in critical condition in an intensive care unit. "Her chances of survival are slim," says the hospital director. Serna, who has multiple sclerosis, was admitted to the same hospital on Monday after a heart attack.

    She survived for about 10 hours on life support, but then seemingly didn't respond to resuscitation efforts following a second attack. She was declared dead early yesterday. About two hours later, funeral home employee Jaime Aullon was just about to inject embalming fluid into Serna's left leg when he saw her move. "She was moving her right arm," he said. "I stopped the procedure and brought her back to the hospital to be treated."

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    DontLikeYou___
    Feb 19, 2010 9:43 PM CST

    Note to self: Do not have a heart attack in Cali, Columbia.


    mel09
    Feb 19, 2010 6:52 PM CST

    Are you guys kidding? why are there so many comments suggesting that someone might wake up "underground", I don't think anyone needs to fear that if you've been embalmed its over.


    CynthiaY29
    Feb 19, 2010 5:07 PM CST

    Amazing that this still happens.




    Grandpa Wakes Up Screaming in Morgue

    Needless to say, the South African man was not actually dead

    By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff Posted Jul 25, 2011 11:00 AM CDT

    (Newser) – A South African grandfather is apparently just fine after spending 21 hours inside a morgue—but we're guessing family dinners are going to be awkward for a while. His family assumed he was dead when they were unable to wake him up, and called for an undertaker. But he later awoke "and screamed, demanding to be taken out of the cold place," says a health official. The man suffered only from dehydration, and was released from the hospital a day later after doctors concluded he was stable, the Times reports.

    "At first, the mortuary workers ran for their lives," thinking they were hearing a ghost, the official adds. "We need to get the message across to all South Africans that it is very wrong for them to conclude on their own that a person has died. You begin to you ask yourself, how many other people have died like that in a morgue?" The proper process? Call an ambulance or police. (Click for a similar, but less happy, story from Russia.)

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    A man is fine after waking up in a morgue after 21 hours.


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    MisterPlinkett
    Jul 27, 2011 7:54 AM CDT

    "At first, the mortuary workers ran for their lives," thinking they were hearing a ghost, the official adds" wow...people are so hilariously stupid.

    finkster
    Jul 25, 2011 3:35 PM CDT

    Well I'm just gonna have to kill grandpa to get his money.


    Fondue
    Jul 25, 2011 1:26 PM CDT

    Hey, dad's asleep again. Should we call the funeral home this time? Yeah. I'm getting sick of this crap.
     
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    Woman Wakes Up at Own Funeral, Dies of Shock

    No, this is not an Onion headline

    By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff Posted Jun 24, 2011 12:32 PM CDT

    (Newser) – There’s irony, and then there’s the story of Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov, a 49-year-old Russian woman who woke up at her own funeral only to have a heart attack and die when she realized what was going on. Mukhametzyanov had been falsely declared dead after collapsing with chest pains, the Daily Mail reports. When she awoke, she was lying in a coffin, with mourners filing past and saying prayers. She screamed, and passed out again.

    “Her eyes fluttered, and we immediately rushed her back to the hospital,” her husband says. “But she only lived for another 12 minutes in intensive care before she died again, this time for good.” The hospital says it’s investigating the incident. “I am very angry, and I want answers,” the husband says. “She wasn’t dead when they said she was and they could have saved her.”

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    Coffins are bad places to wake up.




    'Dead' Woman Opens Eyes, Stops Organ Harvest

    Syracuse hospital nearly killed her after mistaken death pronouncement

    By John Johnson, Newser Staff Posted Jul 9, 2013 7:22 PM CDT

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    (Newser) – The Syracuse Post-Standard has a medical story equal parts amazing and scary: Doctors who thought a 41-year-old woman was dead were preparing to remove her organs when she opened her eyes in the operating room. St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center eventually got fined $6,000 by the state after investigators found a series of mistakes in the near disaster, the most jarring of which is that doctors disregarded a nurse's observation that the patient had been showing signs of improvement and was not, in fact, dead. The woman had overdosed on Xanax and other drugs, and doctors concluded she had suffered not only a "cardiac death" but irreversible brain damage, reports the newspaper. Neither was the case.

    Doctors scheduled the organ removal even after a nurse noticed that the woman's toes curled during a reflex exam; she also appeared to be breathing independently of her respirator. And still, the operation went forward, or would have had the woman not opened her eyes. A sad coda: The patient was released from the hospital two weeks after the incident, but she killed herself more than a year later, in 2011. (Details are just now coming to light thanks to a FOIA request by the Post-Standard.) St. Joseph's tells the New York Daily News it regrets the error and worked to set things right by the patient's family, which did not want the incident discussed publicly.
     
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    Not everywhere in the world follows the same practices when dealing with the recently deceased. Some places do autopsies (which you wouldn't survive), others might involve embalming which switches out body fluids with other chemicals (again something you wouldn't survive).

    In these particular instances and neither of those things had occurred or you wouldn't hear about such things. (Makes you wonder how many coffins in those parts of the world have scratches on the inside from people trying to get out.
     
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    That reminded me of someone I knew long ago who had worked at a funeral home to pay his way through college. I recall that he told me that the bodies would come to him in a sort of trough (water or formaldehyde, or some combination). He would scoot them over to a main tank, then insert a huge needle into the abdomen that opened up to the diameter of a vacuum cleaner hose. Then he would switch on the pump and it would suck all the soft meat and fluids out of the torso. After that he would infuse the embalming fluid and sew up the gash. I recall thinking that this ran counter to some Christian burial rites, in which they believe the body must be buried intact so that it will be able to make it through the resurrection process. If all of these facts are correct, then I suspect the religious patrons are not getting their money's worth.

    Kind of a morbid topic, so far from Halloween. What's up with that, I wonder.
     
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    TIMES LIVE

    Grandpa who woke up in morgue fine

    Sapa | 25 July, 2011 10:09

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    An Eastern Cape grandfather, who woke up in a morgue after his family believed he was dead, has been discharged from hospital, a health official says.

    "Doctors put him under observation and concluded he was stable. He did not need further treatment," said Eastern Cape health spokesman Sizwe Kupelo.

    He said the man had suffered from dehydration after spending 21 hours inside the morgue of a private undertaker at Libode in the Transkei region on Sunday afternoon.

    His family had presumed he was dead when they could not wake him up.

    "The family called a private undertaker who took what they thought was a dead body to the morgue, but the man woke up inside the morgue on Sunday at 5pm and screamed, demanding to be taken out of the cold place."

    Kupelo said the two mortuary attendants thought that they had heard a ghost.

    "At first, the mortuary workers ran for their lives," said Kupelo.

    The man was taken to Saint Barnabas hospital where he was discharged on Monday morning.

    He had to go in for a check-up again on Thursday.

    Kupelo said this incident showed that the funeral industry needed to be better regulated.

    "We need to the message across to all South Africans that it is very wrong for them to conclude on their own that a person has died.

    "You begin to you ask yourself, how many other people have died like that in a morgue."

    If a member of the public thinks a family member is dead, he or she must first call an ambulance or the police who will then follow the correct processes.

    Kupelo said that after the incident, the man's grandson apparently posted a note on social networking site Facebook.

    "He got all defencive about it," said Kupelo.




    Woman dies of heart attack caused by shock of waking up at her OWN funeral

    Started screaming as mourners gathered around coffin saying prayers for her soul
    'Her eyes fluttered but she only lived for another 12 minutes before she died again, this time for good'

    By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 08:14 EST, 24 June 2011

    A woman died from a heart attack caused by shock after waking up to discover she had been declared dead - and was being prepared for burial.

    As mourning relatives filed past her open coffin the supposedly dead woman suddenly woke up and started screaming as she realised where she was.

    Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov, 49, had been wrongly declared deceased by doctors but died for real after hearing mourners saying prayers for her soul to be taken up to heaven in Kazan, Russia.

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    Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov pictured with her husband Fagili. The Russian woman died from shock after waking up at her own funeral.

    Devastated husband Fagili Mukhametzyanov, 51, had been told his wife had died of a heart attack after she'd collapsed at home suffering from chest pains.

    Mr Mukhametzyanov said: 'Her eyes fluttered and we immediately rushed her back to the hospital but she only lived for another 12 minutes in intensive care before she died again, this time for good.

    'I am very angry and want answers. She wasn’t dead when they said she was and they could have saved her.'

    Hospital spokesman Minsalih Sahapov said: 'We are carrying out an investigation.'
     
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    Boy Wakes Up at His Own Funeral ...but not for long: witnesses

    By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff Posted Jun 7, 2012

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    A boy reportedly woke up at his own wake.

    (Newser) – As his family mourned around an open casket in Brazil, the boy inside woke up—but only long enough to ask for some water, witnesses say. Then Kelvin Santos lay back, "dead again," according to his father, in a case that's prompted a police probe. Suffering from pneumonia, Kelvin had earlier stopped breathing at a hospital; he was declared dead, placed in a plastic bag, and given to his parents, the Daily Mail reports.

    During the wake, Kelvin reawakened, asking for water, his family says. "Everybody started to scream ... We thought a miracle had taken place and our boy had come back to life," Antonio Santos says. But "then Kelvin just laid back down, the way he was. We couldn't wake him. He was dead again." The family took the boy back to the hospital, where the staff confirmed he was dead without explaining the situation, Santos notes. Now Santos has complained to police over what he believes to be medical malpractice. "Perhaps they didn't examine him properly ... I'm determined to find out the truth," he says.
     
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    The likelihood of waking up dead

    13:04 4 April 2012 Tiffany O’Callaghan, CultureLab editor

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    A DECADE ago science writer Dick Teresi was working on a story about pinpointing the moment of death. "I thought I had chosen a simple topic. Who is alive? Who is dead? I thought science held the answers," he writes. Instead he found that modern medicine had transformed death into a philosophical question. In The Undead he shows that today death is not simply defined by when your heart stops or you stop breathing, but when whatever makes you you is gone.

    Teresi tours through the ways humanity has identified death throughout history, and includes several alarming anecdotes about when death has been misdiagnosed. But his primary focus is on brain death, and he grows increasingly aggravated as he points out that the criteria used to determine "irreversible coma" were established by a group of 13 Harvard physicians and academics nearly half a century ago, based on no data and with a stated goal of reducing controversy when it came to procuring donor organs. What's more, he stresses, even those criteria are no longer fully adhered to. For example, electroencephalography (EEG) to look for activity in the cortex is not mandated.

    Also alarming, he says, is that the list of conditions that can mimic the traits of brain death has grown over the years, and now includes hypothermia and drug intoxication.

    Modern medicine has made it possible to restart stopped hearts, reverse the course of a stroke hours after it has started, and to enable people whose minds are trapped within non-functioning bodies to communicate through thought patterns or eye movements. Yet Teresi concludes that as we continue to chase death into the shadows, distinguishing its boundaries may become more of an art than a science.
     
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    How Dying Works - by Molly Edmonds

    The Body After Death

    After the heart stops beating, the body immediately starts turning cold. This phase is known as algor mortis, or the death chill. Each hour, the body temperature falls about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (0.83 degrees Celsius) until it reaches room temperature. At the same time, without circulation to keep it moving through the body, blood starts to pool and settle. Rigor mortis, or a stiffening of the body, sets in about two to six hours after death [source: Marchant, Middleton].

    While the body as a whole may be dead, little things within the body are still alive. Skin cells, for example, can be viably harvested for up to 24 hours after death [source: Mims]. But some things that are still alive lead to the putrefaction, or decomposition, of the body -- we're talking about little organisms that live in the intestines.

    A few days after death, these bacteria and enzymes start the process of breaking down their host. The pancreas is full of so many bacteria that it essentially digests itself [source: Macnair]. As these organisms work their way to other organs, the body becomes discolored, first turning green, then purple, then black. If you can't see the change, you'll smell it soon enough, because the bacteria create an awful-smelling gas. In addition to smelling up the room, that gas will cause the body to bloat, the eyes to bulge out of their sockets and the tongue to swell and protrude. (In rare instances, this gas has created enough pressure after a few weeks to cause decomposing pregnant women to expel the fetus in a process known as coffin birth.)

    A week after death, the skin has blistered and the slightest touch could cause it to fall off. A month after death, the hair, nails and teeth will fall out. The hair and nails, by the way, while long rumored to keep growing after death, don't have any magical growth properties. They merely look bigger as the skin dries out. Internal organs and tissues have liquefied, which will swell the body until it bursts open. At that point, a skeleton remains.

    Now, most of us don't see that process because the law requires that we do something with the body. There are endless possibilities: We can choose a coffin for our body or an urn for our ashes. We can be embalmed, mummified or frozen. Some cultures were rumored to engage in cannibalistic rituals of consuming the dead, while others left their dead exposed to the elements for animals to cart away. You could donate your body to science or ask for burial at sea. But unless mummified or preserved, bodies eventually disintegrate in the process described above. However, burial in a coffin slows the process tremendously; even the type of soil in which you're buried can make a difference.

    Disposal of a dead bod*y is largely regulated by cultural and religious beliefs. Early cultures buried the dead with their favorite possessions (and sometimes their favorite people) for the afterlife. Sometimes, warriors or servants were buried standing up, eternally ready for action. Orthodox Jews shroud their dead and bury them on the same day as death, while Buddhists believe that consciousness stays in the body for three days [source: Mims]. Hindus are cremated, because it's believed that burning releases the soul from the body, while Roman Catholics frown on cremation out of respect for the body as a symbol of human life [sources: Mims; Cassell et al].

    Religion and culture will always be intertwined with death, and one large area of influence relates to the ethical questions surrounding the dying process. On the next page, we'll consider some of the issues.


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    What Is Death?

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    With CPR, respirators and defibrillators, we now have ways of bringing the dead back to life.

    *Over time, death has been defined in many ways. Often, we personify death, with visions ranging from the grisly and gnarled Grim Reaper to the dashingly handsome Brad Pitt in the 1998 film "Meet Joe Black." In the first edition of Encyclopedia Britannica, death was briefly summarized as "the separation of the soul and the body," and this definition generally reflects how our views of death are tied up with our religious beliefs (or lack thereof). Fifteen editions later, the entry was 30 times longer [source: Kastenbaum]. That increase in length is likely due to the greater understanding we have of the human body. But from a purely biological standpoint, death is no easier to define; indeed, medical advances and technology have only made it tougher to determine when a person is, in fact, dead.

    Not that identifying death without medical technology was any picnic, either. Imagine for a moment that you lived several hundred years ago. You're at home with the matriarch of the family, who appears to have died. You don't call a doctor for help; rather, you would have called the local priest to make the determination of death. The family and the priest would only have outward signs that the person was dead -- they may have held a mirror to the woman's mouth or a feather above her nose to look for signs of breath. If the mirror didn't cloud or the feather didn't move, then that person was as good as gone. In the 18th century, enough was known about the human body that you would have checked for a heartbeat, but it was still several decades before the invention of the stethoscope. You might have done something known as Balfour's test, which means you would have stuck needles through the skin into the heart. Then you would have watched the top of the needles, which had flags attached, to see if there was movement.

    As time went on, though, people realized that even if all the outward signs of life, like respiration and heartbeat, were gone, there was still a chance that the person wasn't quite dead. In fact, tales began to circulate (with the help of one Edgar Allen Poe) that a person could be buried alive. Death was somehow, in some cases, reversible.

    Today, we know there's technology that makes death quite reversible. If a person stops breathing, he or she can be hooked up to a ventilator that keeps the respiratory and circulatory systems functional. We have feeding tubes, *CPR and a whole host of devices that can keep a person alive, if you measure life by a pulse.

    But doctors and family members started to think that maybe a pulse wasn't quite enough to qualify someone as alive. There were some patients that never recovered consciousness after being hooked up to these machines. Doctors started using terms like "persistent vegetative state" and "irreversible coma." In 1958, French neurologists described this state as "coma depasse," or a state beyond coma. These people weren't coming back, because their brains were too damaged. Around the same time, doctors had discovered how to transplant organs into those near death to prolong their lives. But there was one problem -- they didn't have enough organs to go around.

    Find out how these two situations collided to make a new definition of death on the next page.


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    Juanita Verdugo ·

    I don't think I want to go through this process.

    · · · March 24, 2011 at 12:44am
     
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    How Dying Works - by Molly Edmonds

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    Dying Definition

    Here was the situation in the 1960s: Doctors had the power to transplant organs and give dying people a new shot at life. At the same time, they had people with viable organs hooked up to machines, and it seemed these people were never coming back. In 1968, Harvard Medical School newly defined death as irreversible damage to the brain, or brain death.

    In some ways, Harvard's definition of death is pretty close to Encyclopedia Britannica's original version, if you consider the soul a facet of what makes a person unique and human. The committee at Harvard, in essence, declared that the person was gone when his or her memories and personality, located in the brain, were irretrievably gone. The cortical brain, or the higher brain, is the part where those memories and personality are stored, and some have argued that damage to that higher brain meets the qualifications of brain death. However, most developed countries have signed on to a legal definition of brain death that considers the whole brain, including the brain stem. The brain stem regulates function such as respiration, movement and speech. A determination of brain death requires stringent testing, which you can read about in How Brain Death Works.

    *Using the brain as the definition for death has presented many difficulties. It can be hard for friends and family to hear that a loved one is dead when they can see a chest rising and falling and can touch a warm body, even if those states are being maintained by machine. Some people have always found it a little disconcerting that our definition of death was in some ways shaped by a need for organs, and the argument over how much of the brain has to be dead to count is still troubling bioethicists and doctors. And good old technology is always complicating death, because new machines have been able to find extremely small traces of brain activity. When it's your child hooked up to a machine, extremely small traces may be all you need to hold out hope. And with neurological advances being made every day, is it worth keeping someone alive for longer until science finds a cure?

    We'll discuss these ethical issues in a later section, but for now, let's get back to the process of dying. Though the legal definition of death is tied to brain activity, you'll rarely see "brain death" as the official cause of death. We're more familiar with causes of death like heart attack, cancer and stroke. Broadly speaking, the events that cause our death can be divided into three categories: accidental deaths, which result from bodily injuries sustained in events like car accidents, falls and drowning; violent deaths due to homicide or suicide; and natural deaths, which include diseases and passings that occur due to old age.

    The fact that we can now die just from old age is quite a change from how our ancestors died. With modern medicine, we've defeated many of the infectious diseases and addressed the sanitation issues that may have killed us before. Of course, some areas of the world without access to that kind of health care still die in this way. According to the World Health Organization, the top five causes of death in 2004 in low-income countries included diarrheal diseases and HIV/AIDS, while people in high-income countries were more likely to face these top five killers: coronary heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, lower respiratory infections and pulmonary disease [source: WHO].

    These days, people in high-income countries live longer. But with the blessing of a long life span comes the likelihood of death occurring due to a degenerative disease. So while accidental and violent deaths will always take lives, the great majority of us won't die instantly. Death will be more of a drawn-out process, and on the next page, we'll consider how the dying process may happen.
     
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    How Dying Works - by Molly Edmonds

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    A pet's death may be our first experience with dying.

    *For some of us, death is something we've only seen on television or on the silver screen. Our perceptions of dying have been shaped by actors gunning for awards in dramatic deathbed scenes or bad guys getting their just deserts as they go down in a blast of bullets. We've postponed turning pages of best-selling books to keep our heroes alive and listened to the heartbreak of loss on the radio. Dying is on the news as well: celebrities dying of overdoses, princesses dying in car accidents and ordinary people dying in terrorist attacks. Death is a concept even young students grapple with in history class, trying to understand the impact of millions dead because of war, disease, natural disasters or concentration camps.

    Others of us have witnessed dying in an up close and personal way. We've lost grandparents and parents to degenerative diseases, we've lost siblings and friends to car accidents or we've known someone who was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. When death happens, it often seems unfair. It may also seem unnatural because from the time of our births, we spend a good deal of effort trying to prevent death. We receive childhood vaccines so we don't get sick; we hear strict admonitions to look both ways before crossing the street; we swallow broccoli grudgingly knowing that it's good for us. As we become teenagers, we learn about risk factors that could shorten our lives, from tobacco and alcohol use to unsafe sex and reckless driving. And when we round the bend to adulthood, we start swallowing vitamins and prescription drugs and subscribing to bizarre exercise and beauty regimes in an effort to trick death.

    *But death isn't an adversary we can conquer or a battle that is to be won. Rather, it's a natural part of life that occurs sooner or later because our bodies weren't made to last forever. Also, it's the event that gives life meaning. Without the timeline of death, it could be argued, we'd never get around to doing very much at all. In that way, death puts a lot of pressure on us, and we may never feel we're actually ready for it. Additionally, death is a mysterious business; after all, the only ones who know anything about it aren't around to share their knowledge.

    Death may not always be pretty, but it's a fate that awaits us all.
     

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