/oss/taxonomy/term/3904/all en /oss/article/general-science/death-our-body-feasts-itself <p>A pretty morbid question perhaps, but why is it that our body does not decompose while we are alive? Most of<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118953358"> </a><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118953358">the post-mortem changes that affect our body</a> are the result of things we already carry inside of us, so how is it that these potent destructors are kept in check before we die?</p> Thu, 20 May 2021 20:05:34 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 8740 at /oss /oss/article/health-history/its-time-let-five-stages-grief-die <p>Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. Acceptance.</p> <p>This group of terms has become so ingrained in our cultural consciousness that almost anyone could tell you what they are: the five stages of grief.</p> <p>Introduced to the world in the 1969 book <i>On Death and Dying </i>by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, the Kübler-Ross model (sometimes called the DABDA model) surmises that there are sequential stages of various emotions that a patient goes through when diagnosed with a terminal illness, starting with denial and ending with acceptance.</p> Fri, 31 May 2019 15:54:47 +0000 Ada McVean B.Sc. 7786 at /oss