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When I first wrote about Dr. Michael Fratkin and his new venture, Resolution Care (http://resolutioncare.com) in November of last year, the nascent effort was essentially an empty space, a basic website, and a crowdfunding campaign. But more importantly, at the core was a vision of a new approach to end-of-life care. Less than a year later... Full Article
Shooting Stars
Science is not a body of knowledge so much as a technique for understanding the world. It's fallible and incomplete as any human endeavor. However, in the last few hundred years science has enabled us to learn a vast amount about how reality works. It continues to be the best process for understanding our world. But gaps in our knowledge persist.... Full Article
I'm Dead. Carry On.
Perhaps it won't happen soon. Perhaps if I eat right, stop drinking, exercise, and actually go to those annual checkups, I'll be able to put it off for 20, 30, 100 more years as science and medicine advance ahead of my decrepitude. But people younger than me are dying all the time, so there are no guarantees. It will happen and I will be dead.