In 1972, I found an article in Time Magazine about university students taking a course called THANATOLOGY, about dying. The associated photo showed a student lying in a coffin to see how how it felt. I thought that that was "cool" at the time because it faced death with bravery and confronted the issue in a stark manner rather different than the society around me that treated death as a sad thing and mostly avoided day to day trying to get things done.
At the time I was 15 and obsessed with the problem of death already. I even tried to freeze and reanimate a frog in the family freezer. It jumped out of the cold water I put him in and he stuck to the inside wall of the freezer just above PORK ROAST labelled in a brown paper. I had to scrape him off killing him in the process. Cryonics in a family freezer doesn't work.
Thanatology as described in the article I still have in my IMMORATALITY binder did not include HOSPICE care, medical beds and medical supplies, CARE "GIVERS"... both pro and amateur and various health insurances...and how to pay for a doctor "OUT OF POCKET"... but it COULD have. It seems to me there must be entire BOOKS on MEDICAL THANATOLOGY by now, including all these elements. If there isn't one, I'll try to put it together her in this forum since it's the closest thing to writing a book I have right now.
I spoke to the medical supply guy who picked up the med bed with the bubble mattress, pumped up continuously with a motor, and asked him if they have a bed with a frame overhead that can be used with a winch to lift the patient above the bed. They don't have that, he said, but someone should invent it. It's a massive problem for bed ridden.
Here is the supply company...
medassure.com
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