The Seven Ages of Death Quotes

“The World Health Organization calculates that over 5 per cent of all deaths worldwide are associated with alcohol and that in the twenty to thirty-nine age group an amazing 13.5 per cent are ‘attributable to alcohol’.”
― Richard Shepherd, The Seven Ages of Death: A Forensic Pathologist’s Journey Through Life

“Alcohol’s effects on neurons is similar to a lack of oxygen: it turns them off, or at least slows them down.”
― Richard Shepherd, The Seven Ages of Death: A Forensic Pathologist’s Journey Through Life

“People often assume that a fractured skull is a cause of death, but this is seldom if ever the case. It is the brain moving within the skull that can cause fatal injury.”
― Richard Shepherd, The Seven Ages of Death: A Forensic Pathologist’s Journey Through Life

“I cut down the midline and folded back the skin and fat. Almost everyone in Western society has fat clinging to the underside of their skin, even a fit young man.”
― Richard Shepherd, The Seven Ages of Death: A Forensic Pathologist’s Journey Through Life

“What makes CO poisonous is its love of haemoglobin. It clings to this critical chemical in our red blood cells at least 250 times more strongly than the oxygen the cells should be transporting.”
― Richard Shepherd, The Seven Ages of Death: A Forensic Pathologist’s Journey Through Life

“taking increased population size into account, at least three times as many children now have asthma diagnosed as in the 1960s.”
― Richard Shepherd, The Seven Ages of Death: A Forensic Pathologist’s Journey Through Life

“The commonest childhood cancer is acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.”
― Richard Shepherd, The Seven Ages of Death: A Forensic Pathologist’s Journey Through Life

“the ages between five and nine are the safest across an entire lifetime, with ages between ten and fourteen not far behind.”
― Richard Shepherd, The Seven Ages of Death: A Forensic Pathologist’s Journey Through Life

“After that dangerous first year of life, the chances of dying in childhood plummet by more than 95 per cent.”
― Richard Shepherd, The Seven Ages of Death: A Forensic Pathologist’s Journey Through Life

“A new baby is a symbol of hope, but the reality of a baby’s demands can be isolating, stripping all joy from the parent. Yes, we have all been driven near the end of our tether by persistent crying and this is certainly exacerbated in situations of poverty and extreme stress.”
― Richard Shepherd, The Seven Ages of Death: A Forensic Pathologist’s Journey Through Life

“I would say that most often the child’s constant crying and demands are interpreted by the carer who kills not as expressions of need but as calculated, deliberate and malicious acts designed to provoke.”
― Richard Shepherd, The Seven Ages of Death: A Forensic Pathologist’s Journey Through Life

“The dead fill me with compassion. They lie naked and still, unable to defend themselves or offend others. Whatever may have been complex in life is now simple, whatever was secret is now laid bare, whatever mattered is now unimportant.”
― Richard Shepherd, The Seven Ages of Death: A Forensic Pathologist’s Journey Through Life

“Мало-помалу ми забуваємо все, чого батьки нас навчали. Як розмовляти. Чистити зуби. Одягатися вранці. Ходити. Коли вищі психічні функції повністю зникають, починають відмирати нейрони у найдавнішій частині нашого мозку.”
― Richard Shepherd, The Seven Ages of Death

“Дитинство друге, напівзабуття: ані зубів, ні зору, ні смаку.”
― Richard Shepherd, The Seven Ages of Death

“Що старшим я стаю й що менше мене непокоїть думка про смерть, то більше я усвідомлюю, який прекрасний досвід подарувало мені життя.”
― Ричард Шеперд, The Seven Ages of Death