Modern death in rich societies is sometimes a kind of disease in that medicine instead of prolonging life prolongs death

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She explains in plain language the feelings of dying patients: “dying is different for everyone. There´s no textbook”; “pain seems to dissipate in the very last few hours, and, for most people, those hours are peaceful”; “in the last two weeks of her life, my mother was ready and eager to die”; “I´ve also tried to convey some sense of the beauty and joy that often surround dying -the sense of meaning it can give to the dying person and people around her.”

https://commissiononthevalueofdeath.wordpress.com/2020/09/08/we-all-need-an-internal-debate-about-death-and-dying-and-our-own-deaths