Authors : Varsha Dutta Publisher : Narosa Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. ISBN : 978-81-8487-570-6 Price : 1000rs/- Year of Publication : 2016 Pages : 108 pp Among the diseases that afflict the mind, depression is one of the most forbidding, a scourge that ranks very much on a par with Alzheimer's disease or with fulminant schizophrenia for its calamitous effects. It can at times descend on its...
In a big yawn of death life is extinguished, ennui of existence comes to an end. The implacable pain evokes a cascade of emotions so does the idea of death and dying. Pain is not always somatic, but would also signify loss of dignity, incontinence, disfigurement, cognitive impairment, nutritional deprivation and immobility. Palliative care is a neglected aspect of cancer care. There are just a...
Death is our most repressed consciousness, it inheres our condition as the primordial fear. Perhaps it was necessary that this angst be repressed in man or he would be hurled against the dark forces of nature. Modern ethos was built on this edifice, where the 'denial of death' while 'embracing one's symbolic immortality' would be worshipped, so this ideology simply overturned and repressed...