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Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"Readers of Edgar Allan Poe's tales - just think of The Premature Burial - may comfort themselves with the notion that Poe must have exaggerated: surely people of the 1880s could not have been at risk of being buried alive? But such stories filled medical journals as well as fiction, and fear in the populace was high. It was speculated, from the number of skeletons found in horrible, contorted positions inside their coffins, that ten out of every...
2) Checklist for family survivors: a guide to practical and legal matters when someone you love dies
Author
Publisher
American Bar Association
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Publisher
Distrib Films
Pub. Date
[2019?]
Language
Persian
Description
"Forensic pathologist Dr. Nariman's car accidentally injures a motorcyclist's eight-year-old son. He offers to take the child to a clinic, but the father refuses his help and his money. A few days later, in the hospital where he works, Dr. Nariman learns that the boy has died under suspicious circumstances. His existential dilemma: is he responsible for the death, or did the child die of another cause, as the autopsy suggests? It's a study in ethical...
Series
Family tree maker ; CD 110
Publisher
Broderbund Software
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"Contains more than 60 million names of deceased individuals who appear in the Social Security Death Benefit Records Collection at the Social Security Administration ... Included ... are approximately 400,000 railroad retirement records from the early 1900s to 1950s"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Are you alive? What makes you so sure? Most people believe this question has a clear answer--that some law defines our status as living (or not) for all purposes. But they are dead wrong. In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Price Foley examines the many, and surprisingly ambiguous, legal definitions of what counts as human life and death. Foley reveals that "not being dead" is not necessarily the same as being alive, in the eyes of the law. People,...