Funeral costs have increased a staggering 827 percent in the last 50 years.
Une Belle Vie has released this helpful infographic on the true cost of death. The infographic illustrates how much funerals, memorials, cremations and other death care options costs have risen from 1960 to 2010. It also provides the breakdown cost between burials and cremations and their impact on the environment. (Infographic)
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Cosmetic surgery
When people who were instructed to think about their own mortality they were more receptive to the idea of having cosmetic surgery than those who weren’t (3.57 versus 2.96 on a seven-point scale). This suggests that fear of death is a motivator behind patients’ decisions to have tummy tucks, says Kim-Pong Tam of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
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The first 48 hours following a procedure is most critical.
Researchers have found that people who have surgery towards the end of the week are more likely to die than those who have procedures earlier on. A British Medical Journal report into non-emergency operations in England, suggests the overall risk of death from such planned procedures remains low. But it also shows “unacceptable” variation in survival rates through the week, a leading body of UK surgeons says.
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More people are taking their own lives than ever before in the U.S.
Suicide remains a topic few health professionals want to discuss openly with their patients. It remains a topic avoided even by many mental health professionals. Policy makers see it as a black hole without an obvious solution.
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More people now die of suicide than in car accidents.
The rate of suicide among middle-aged Americans have risen sharply in the past decade, prompting concern that a generation of baby boomers who have faced years of economic worry and easy access to prescription painkillers may be particularly vulnerable to self-inflicted harm.
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There were 80,000 drug and alcohol overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s WONDER database. The database, maintained by the National Center for Health Statistics, keeps a tally of all the deaths listed on certificates nationwide. They’re classified by the ICD-10 medical coding reference system.
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Single people have as high as twice the mortality rate of married people.
A trend that has held true in studies across the world and time periods is that single, widowed, and divorced people have as high as twice the mortality rate of married people. The tendencies for unmarried people to die seems to tell us about the relative strength of social bonds, which is supported by similar trends seen among ants, bees, and even cells, described in a fascinating paper in Cornell’s quantitative biology archive.
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A while ago, Marc Chernoff shared the wisdom his grandmother had left behind for him after she passed away. The twelve pieces of wisdom were in her old leather-bound journal and it was named “Inspiration Journal.” On her last entry she had written seven questions. She never wrote the answers to these questions but they are very thought provoking questions. Here Marc shares his thoughts on the questions and he hopes that what he shares will inspire everyone who reads this and that you will be able to answer each question one day with a sense of peace and fulfillment.
A communal cell for juveniles in a Yemeni prison.
Mohammed Haza’a was put to death last week by the Yemeni government despite legitimate questions as to whether he was under the age of 18 when he committed an alleged murder.
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Increased risk of death for people who eat a diet of processed meat.
Vegetarians have healthier hearts but people who have diets high in processed meat — regardless of whether or not it contains horse — are at a significantly increased risk of death due to cardiovascular disease, and to a lesser extent, cancer.
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Record number of 349 military suicides in 2012.
More U.S. military service members have been lost to suicide than combat last year as the number of troops who took their lives rose to a record high.
Moving paper death certificates to an online process should be easy.
The EDRS, or the Washington State Electronic Death Registry System is an online system that is moving paper death certificates to an online process. This system should make the process of completing death certificates faster and easier. But, the government designed the system.
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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