Barring devastating accidents and disseminated cancer, man usually dies because of the failure of just one organ. Theoretically, through progressive replacement of failing organs, man could live forever and veritably spout the fountain of youth for the first time in history. However, a critical four-hour survival time between organ donor and recipient is a limiting factor for making organ replacement feasible. To start the fountain flowing, to offer transplantation on demand, and to anticipate over-flowing demands, would require one of the greatest discoveries of the decade-a simple means for organ preservation. Through meticulous research and happenstance, Dr. Frederick Middleton does indeed discover a unique freeze-dry formula to preserve organs without fracturing the cell walls, so invariably typical of any freezing or thawing process. But, as with all things good, a profiteering underworld soon corrupts the organ exchange business, garnering fortunes from trusting recipients who hopefully would give most anything they own for one just more fling at life. Within this milieu, this struggle for life, lies a stream of patients whose heart-rending stories question traditional concepts for dealing with the dying. UPDATED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Maurice S. Rawlings, M.D. - Physician to President Dwight Eisenhower - Physician to Joint Chiefs of Staff - Assoc. Clinical Professor of Medicine, Univ. of Tennessee - National Teaching Faculty, American Heart Association - Medical Director, Aventis and ZLB Bio-science Laboratories - Author of Beyond Death's Door, Before Death Comes, Life Wish, and To Hell and Back. (Multiple languages. The first and last publications were also made into movies). - Fellow, American Colleges of Cardiology, Angiology and Chest Physicians - Diplomat, American Board of Cardiology - Chairman, TVA Medical Retirement Board - Pilot, Instrument, Multi-engine
Which religion is yours? You don't have one? That's strange, because in the hospital Emergency Room, everyone seems to vocalize a religion of some sort, want to or not. The typical response to an acute injury or illness is "God help me!" And they can't keep from saying this. Each religion also seems to involve this basic question: Is there a life after death? And to attain this "good" life when you die seems to form the basic objective of most religions. But how do you know that you have the right religion? In this wonderful Age of Resuscitation in which we live, post-death experiences occur in most all faiths, races and cultures. In fact, about twenty percent of those resuscitated from clinical death have had an after-death experience so real that it turns their life upside-down. Not only are they willing to bet their life on this revelation, but the very sequence of events are comparable-something that drugs, chemicals, injuries, and infections cannot do or duplicate. For contrast, let's compare the death experience for the main groups of religions, for death, as with life, is patiently waiting for each of us to discover this answer for ourselves. UPDATED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Maurice S. Rawlings, M.D. - Physician to President Dwight Eisenhower - Physician to Joint Chiefs of Staff - Assoc. Clinical Professor of Medicine, Univ. of Tennessee - National Teaching Faculty, American Heart Association - Medical Director, Aventis and ZLB Bio-science Laboratories - Author of Beyond Death's Door, Before Death Comes, Life Wish, and To Hell and Back. (Multiple languages. The first and last publications were also made into movies). - Fellow, American Colleges of Cardiology, Angiology and Chest Physicians - Diplomat, American Board of Cardiology - Chairman, TVA Medical Retirement Board - Pilot, Instrument, Multi-engine
An oil painting, The Portrait of Jenny, divides two brothers in life and two sisters in death. The brothers, one a priest and one a physician, each vie for the love of Jenny, one of the sisters. The priest unknowingly paints his love into Jenny's portrait. Then to prove that he loves God more, the priest joins the Vatican in Rome. The physician meanwhile yields to whims and marries Jenny, having amassed a great fortune by modifying growth hormones until they engender perpetual youth, perhaps opening the door to the Holy Grail. On the other side of the world where the Pope is dying from cancer, Father Anthony Cochran strives to thwart secular forces from swaying the next Papal election. An intriguing battle ensues behind the scenes which unites two crime families that separately target the two brothers. Although resembling the story of Cain and Abel, the Biblical prophesy seems unfulfilled until Brett, ding first, reaches vengefully from the grave to consume his own brother. Years later, the story is exposed when a newspaper reporter writes an article on the award-winning Portrait of Jenny which today hangs in the National Museum of Art in the nation's capitol. UPDATED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Maurice S. Rawlings, M.D. [Physician to President Dwight Eisenhower [Physician to Joint Chiefs of Staff [Assoc. Clinical Professor of Medicine, Univ. of Tennessee [National Teaching Faculty, American Heart Association [Medical Director, Aventis and ZLB Bio-science Laboratories [Author of Beyond Death's Door, Before Death Comes, Life Wish, and To Hell and Back. (Multiple languages. The first and last publications were also made into movies). [Fellow, American Colleges of Cardiology, Angiology andChest Physicians [Diplomat, American Board of Cardiology [Chairman, TVA Medical Retirement Board [Pilot, Instrument, Multi-engine
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