dying

On average, Maine sees about six sled deaths per year. These three this weekend brings this winter season's totals to seven.

It has been said for years, ‘they died of a broken heart’, and that seems to be true. Studies done at John Hopkins Hospital call it ‘broken heart syndrome’ where a surge of hormones impairs the muscle in the heart to pump.

Bonnie Ware, a nurse in Australia, published a book called ‘The Top Five Regrets of Dying’. She has worked for several years as a nurse caring for people who are in the last 12 weeks of their lives. Over the time spent caring and consoling, she recorded their dying words and a common theme of regrets.