Word: postmortem
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...University, points out there are people who consciously don't register for organ donation for religious and other reasons, and it would be unfair to press them on their beliefs. Most folks, however, hesitate simply because they don't want to face their own mortality, preferring to leave the postmortem choice to their loved ones. Reciprocity would force the issue earlier, and despite his misgivings, Landry believes that's a good thing. "You may never need a new kidney," he says, "but a lot of people aren't going to risk not having that extra insurance just in case...
...name, narcissism is a condition defined mostly by disablingly low self-esteem, requiring the sufferer to seek almost constant recognition and reward. When the world and the people in it don't respond as they should, narcissists are not just enraged but flat-out mystified. Cho's multimedia postmortem package exuded narcissistic exhibitionism, and the words he spoke into the camera left no doubt as to what he believed - or wanted to believe - was his own significance. "Thanks to you," he said in one of his many indictments of his victims, "I die like Jesus Christ...
...home—the English title of the film is a line from a song about war-torn Bosnia. The well-used pick-up line “Where have I seen you before?” gets the morbid and somewhat unexpected answer: “At postmortem identifications.” Sara and her boyfriend first bond over the death of their fathers. However, all is not drenched in the drama and pain of the past: Esma and Sara rough-tumble in their pajamas, Sara throws her babysitter’s purse out the window, and Esma...
Wang is still on display exactly as he was when living. When a user dies, his profile freezes in time. Facebook.com doesn’t allow postmortem airbrushing or rose-colored filtering. On Facebook.com, the late Wang is illuminated by the same clinical glow of the computer monitor that illuminated him while he was alive...
...Postmortem II” by Patricia Cornwell would undoubtedly be just as successful...