Modern Medicine Is About Living A Good Life: Who Handles Giving Us A Good Death?
Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 10:10
in Health & Medicine
We're all going to die, that is nature's way of telling us to get the hint. But it is the purpose of science and medicine to defy nature. Death is going to be standing at the door and doctors have taken an oath to block the way. But what about when it's unavoidable and quality of death becomes more important than quality of life? That's a psychology issue. A paper in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management analyzes the overall 'quality of death' of cancer patients who die in an urban Canadian setting with ready access to palliative care was found to be good to excellent in the large majority of cases. Is suffering at the end of life inevitable? read more