SIGNS OF LIFE FROM A BOOK FOR THE DEAD

From: The Boston Globe | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: BEVERLY BECKHAM | Copyright information

I haven't put him in my dead book yet. A hard word, "dead." A word you want to camouflage with softer syllables - deceased, departed, passed on.

But dead is the right word because dead is hard - people you love not in the next room, or the next town, or on the telephone saying, "Do you know that I'm the only one in the world who can call you daughter?"

My irreverently named book began not as a spiritual reminder that none of us is long for this world, but as an organizational too...

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

Aging research newsletter.(FYI.)
Clinical Psychiatry News ; An electronic newsletter, Spotlight on Aging Research: News and Notes from the National Institute on Aging, is available. The free newsletter features updates on NIA findings, information ...
State mandates report.(FYI.)
Clinical Psychiatry News ; The report State Mandates for Treatment for Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders focuses on state-mandated benefits, laws regulating mental health and addiction treatment, and prescriptive authority granted to nurse practitioners and physician assistants. It is available from the Substance
Extended-release luvox for anxiety, OCD.(FYI.)
Clinical Psychiatry News ; The Food and Drug Administration has approved once-a-day Luvox CR (fluvoxamine maleate) extended-release capsules for the treatment of social anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder in adults. The drug, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor that incorporates an absorption system, is
Program grants for homeless.(FYI.)
Clinical Psychiatry News ; The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is taking applications for 25 grants of about $400,000 each to provide treatment for homeless persons who also have mental or sub-stance-abuse disorders. Nonprofit public and private entities such as local governments, universities and
Genetic testing brochure.(FYI.)
Clinical Psychiatry News ; The National Cancer Institute is offering an eight-page brochure, Genetic Testing: What It Means for Your Health and for Your Family's Health. It explains what genetic tests are, lists the different types, tells how they are done, and gives examples of diseases linked to genetic changes that can be