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.
Introduction to Thanatopsis. William Cullen Bryant was a poet who lived and wrote during what is known as the era of Romanticism. Romanticism involved nature, individualism, emotions, and the imagination. Bryant wrote this poem in the early 1800s, most likely in 1813 or shortly thereafter, when there was a great deal of poetry being written about mortality (the poets writing such works were known as Graveyard Poets).