Yes, you can still be approved for life insurance at good rates after having apulmonary embolism or PE.  Your best rating will be preferred, if the occurrence was more than 6 months ago and depending on the risks of recurrence.  A pulmonary embolism is a blood clot in the lung, usually caused by a blood clot coming lose from the leg.  Its most common treatment is the medication Coumadin.  This inhibits vitamin K, decreasing the coagulant ability in the blood, which commonly dissolves the clot...