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Joseph Meister (1940), French caretaker who was the first person to be inoculated against rabies, gas furnace [848] Kitty Melrose (1912), English stage actress and singer, carbon monoxide poisoning [849] Meng Tian (210 BC), Chinese general, administrator and inventor [460] Adolf Merckle (2009), German entrepreneur and billionaire, train [850]
No Longer Human (Japanese: 人間失格, Hepburn: Ningen Shikkaku), also translated as A Shameful Life, is a 1948 novel by Japanese author Osamu Dazai.It tells the story of a troubled man incapable of revealing his true self to others, and who, instead, maintains a façade of hollow jocularity, later turning to a life of alcoholism and drug abuse before his final disappearance.
LES offers to freeze free of charge the first person desirous and in need of cryogenic suspension." Bedford did not take this opportunity, however, but later used his own funds. Bedford suffered from kidney cancer that had later metastasized into his lungs, a condition that was untreatable at the time. [5] Bedford died in 1967 at 73 years old.
In the first year, no addict in the new model curriculum died from an overdose. Phoenix House, another giant in the treatment world, started out in the 1960s following the Synanon model. The New York City-based operation had previously used buprenorphine only sporadically for detoxing its opioid-addicted residents.
William Seward Burroughs II (/ ˈ b ʌr oʊ z /; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist.He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature.
Kenneth also quotes his father's final words as being "Son, if you want to get ahead in this world—oh God, this hurts! Tell your mother I'm gay ! ". [ 20 ] After Kenneth's father died, his mother's "friend" Ron moved in with him and his mother.
Chisholm served as president of the World Federation of Mental Health (1957–58). [4] He was one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a world constitution. [14] [15] As a result, for the first time in human history, a World Constituent Assembly convened to draft and adopt the Constitution for the Federation ...
John Stith Pemberton (July 8, 1831 – August 16, 1888) was an American pharmacist and Confederate States Army veteran who is best known as the inventor of Coca-Cola.On May 8, 1886, he developed an early version of a beverage that would later become Coca-Cola, but sold the rights to the drink shortly before his death in 1888.