I am now the proud owner of a third one.
The experience of getting there was quite difficult.
Let me briefly re-cap.
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Archive for the ‘Mortality’ Category
They Finally Heard
Posted in Health, Humanity, Mortality, Science, Uncategorized, tagged heart attack, angiogram, angioplasty, dye, CHD, cardiovascular disease, stent, valium on July 2, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Two Becomes Three …
Posted in Health, Mortality, tagged angiogram, angioplasty, arteries, blood, groin, heart attack, hospital, medical, Papworth, phobia on May 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Two becomes three …
Although I can write about it now, I have been ‘internally speechless’ for days (if that makes sense).
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Growing More Passionate
Posted in Existential, Health, Humanity, Mortality, Relationships, tagged age, ageing, death, Dylan Thomas, fifties, forties, glasses, life, love, passion, Richard Holloway, stagnation, thirties on January 1, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Throughout my life I had heard rumours that things change when you reach your fifties. In my twenties, thirties, and forties I laughed at men who grew fatter, lost most of their hair, staggered sleepily to the toilet in the middle of the night, and who mysteriously talked about bits that struggled to function. It [...]
Peace on Earth
Posted in Faith, Humanity, Mortality, Relationships, Religion, tagged Armenian, Bethlehem, Christmas, Church of the Nativity, conflict, Greek Orthodox, Jesus, Palestinian intifada, pilgrims, Pope Benedict on December 28, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Christmas is traditionally a time of peace. Many of the faithful would even argue that peace on earth is one of the ‘true meanings’ of Christmas. At the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI called on world leaders to end bloody conflicts and expressed hope that the celebration of birth of Jesus Christ would bring [...]
A Strange Spirituality
Posted in Faith, Morality, Mortality, Religion, tagged Benedict XVI, Bernadette Soubirous, Crusades, indulgences, John Paul II, Lourdes, Mary, pilgrim, pilgrimage, Pope, purgatory, Reformation, Roman Catholic Church, Urban II on December 10, 2007 | 7 Comments »
You just couldn’t make it up!
You will remember that before the Reformation in the C16th, the Roman Catholic Church got itself into a bit of bother over the sale on indulgences - its version of a ‘get out of hell free’ card (that you had to buy). (more…)
Bad Faith
Posted in Faith, Health, Morality, Mortality, Religion, tagged bible, blood, Emma Gough, fundamentalism, Genesis, hermeneutics, Jehovah's Witness, Leviticus, life, murder, Old Testament, suicide, symbol, Telford, transfusion, WatchTower on November 6, 2007 | 24 Comments »
In the early hours of October 25, 2007, 22 year old Emma Gough, a shopworker from Telford, UK, died. She had recently given birth to twins, and held the babies as her life ebbed away.
She died, despite being in hospital with a team of doctors and nurses around her. She died, even though her life [...]
They Always Win
Posted in Existential, Faith, Humanity, Mortality, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, tagged evolution, beliefs, Religion, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, prayer, Templeton Foundation, Harvard Medical School, Herbert Benson, paranormal, charlatans, Christians, American Heart Journal, heart surgery, fantasy, fantasies, believers, intimacy, Brookmyre, amputees on October 24, 2007 | 7 Comments »
“If they win, they win. If they lose, they win!”
This statement was spoken with frustration and a degree of sarcasm in Christopher Brookmyre’s recent comic novel “Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks”. In this book Brookmyre wittily explores and exposes the fraudulent activities of people involved in the world of the paranormal. One of the major themes [...]
Coffins on the Doorstep
Posted in Existential, Government, Human Rights, Humanity, Mortality, tagged Christiane Keller, Dignitas, Ludwig Minelli, right-to-die, suicide, Switzerland on September 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The Right-to-die group, Dignitas, has recently encountered problems in Zurich where local residents objected to premises being used to support suicide, though assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland and has been allowed since the 1940s. This is the second time it has had to move its apartment within a year.
In a way, Dignitas has become [...]
