Low blood cell counts occur because of chemotherapyâs effect on blood cells made in the bone marrow. Blood cell counts often reach their lowest level about 7â14 days after chemotherapy. Bone marrow suppression is the most common and most serious side effect of chemotherapy.
Thanatology is the scientific study of death. It investigates the mechanisms and forensic aspects of death, such as bodily changes that accompany death and the post-mortem period, as well as wider psychological and social aspects related to death.
Freud thus resorts to a mode of metaphysical speculation to illuminate the death drive. At its loftiest, Thanatos expresses the body s place in the greater scheme of things, as what is mortal, and must return to nothingness.