Added on August 30, 2022 Historical essay Modern Medicine Has Improved Our Lives, But What About Our Deaths? In 1929, a young woman entered Koch Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. Her symptoms may have included coughing, difficulty breathing, […]
Added on May 28, 2020 The Deathbed Reconsidering How We Die I arrived home ready to relax and watch The Crown after an intense work day, which included debriefing the family […]
Added on April 28, 2020 The Personal is Historical Ordinary Death in a Pandemic On Tuesday, March 17, 2020, shortly after noon, my mother, Carol Lenoir Price Swedberg, died in home hospice at the […]