Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Synchronicity

Sometimes this coincidence thing can hardly be called serendipitous

There I was looking at the mortality statistics

And then there was the programme in which Jonathan Miller explores the complex questions that arise from trying to define death

In particular he spoke to Michel Coleman, the Professor of Epidemiology & Vital Statistics at LSHTM who, among other things, explained why doctors & statisticians are not very keen on ‘old age’ as a cause of death

It was interesting, but made me feel just a little bit queasy because of the timing