Dictionary entry overview: What does traumatic mean? â¢ TRAUMATIC (adjective) The adjective TRAUMATIC has 2 senses: 1. of or relating to a physical injury or wound to the body 2. psychologically painful Familiarity information: TRAUMATIC used as an adjective is rare.
In 1957, Rachel Carson got breast cancer, probably because of the pesticide she was studying and trying to stop. She died of a heart attack at the age of 57. Their was a wood she had wanted to buy when she was younger. She had not completed her dream to buy it, but she did stop DDT and the other pesticies,
How âSilent Springâ Ignited the Environmental Movement. On June 4, 1963, less than a year after the controversial environmental classic âSilent Springâ was published, its author, Rachel Carson, testified before a Senate subcommittee on pesticides. She was 56 and dying of breast cancer. She told almost no one. Sheâd already survived a radical mastectomy.