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  2. Organ gifting - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] It is reasoned that the implementation of the gift-giving analogy to organ transactions shows greater respect for the diseased body, honors the donor, and transforms the transaction into a morally acceptable and desirable act that is borne out of voluntarism and altruism. [5]

  3. Life release - Wikipedia

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    Life release, also known as merit release, mercy release, fangsheng (from Mandarin Chinese 放生) or prayer animal release, is a Buddhist practise of releasing animals held captive with the presumed intention of saving their lives, if they were destined for slaughter, or of giving them back their freedom, as animals nowadays are commonly sold with the explicit purpose to be released for ...

  4. Hysterical strength - Wikipedia

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    However, in life-threatening situations, it is adaptive for the central governor limits to be removed or modified. [1] People in high load weightlifting training are able to activate more motor units, which ensures more strength and efficiency in muscle contraction, even though they had the same amount of muscle mass compared to people in low ...

  5. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Hamm might be able to come back eventually and participate in a shortened version of the program, Greenwell said. But there was a three-month waiting list. Greenwell said, half joking, that he wanted to make T-shirts that read, “One in 10 make it. Are you the One?” In late September, Hamm was transferred back to Grateful Life for another try.

  6. Three Hours To Change Your Life - images.huffingtonpost.com

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    back toward home along the same route we’d come. It was hard work. By mid-March we began to see the end of the winter mornings and were starting to feel better about it all. As we talked with friends, some of them became interested, and soon what began as a ridiculous conversation on the first day in January took on a life of its own. In the

  7. Moral Injury: Healing - The Huffington Post

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    Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.

  8. Sparagmos - Wikipedia

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    Sparagmos (Ancient Greek: σπαραγμός, from σπαράσσω sparasso, "tear, rend, pull to pieces") is an act of rending, tearing apart, or mangling, [3] usually in a Dionysian context. In Dionysian rite as represented in myth and literature, a living animal, or sometimes even a human being, is sacrificed by being dismembered.

  9. Emma McIntyre/Getty Images Dolly Parton must work longer than 9 to 5 to balance her music and impressive charitable efforts. In 2022, Parton was honored with the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy for ...