Saturday, November 15, 2014

How to cure death

Can we cure death? I recently saw this question on Quora "Why can't we cure death?". As I thought about this, using a healthicine framework, I made some interesting discoveries about health, illness, death - and cures.

First, let's take a look at the definition of 'cure'. I am not a doctor, but I consulted some medical manuals. The MERCK Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, and Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, for the definition of cure, and learned that 'cure' is not defined in these medical resources.  The word cure is sometimes used - but not with consistency of meaning.