As yet another friend dies from cancer this week, I do wonder if School deaths accord with the general pattern of deaths in the UK?
As a group we are not particularly long-lived - worn out from too much activity? Or maybe it's something completely different? I haven't done a head-count over the last few years, but I can think of only one fatal heart attack but numbers of deaths from cancer.
This line of thought is not particularly helpful - except that it might point to areas of imbalance amongst the still living which could then be addressed. It would certainly repay study, to cut through any disabling myths about the health of the human body which are still lurking around the School.
If anyone is reading this who is a doctor, or similar, would you care to look at School members in this respect?
Our health may depend on it.
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Why are we dying?
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An elderly friend - 90 last birthday - is feeling full of the joys. Her lover's wife, ill for many years with Alzheimer's, has died, and A. is expecting a proposal.
'If only it had happened when I was 80!' she exclaimed.
I mention this simply in order to attract your attention to a subject - disease and dying - which is a difficult one for all of us.
On Friday morning I woke with a revelation, or so it seemed to me. During the night the cogs and wheels had slid into place. If - as a School - we tend to die of one kind of disease (cancer), rather than of another, could it be that we acquire, at the heart level, an imprint which tends towards that?
It's not an area where speculation is very helpful but, at the same time, it's not an area to be ignored.
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