Atul Gawande

A prominent surgeon argues against modern medical practices that extend life at the expense of quality of life while isolating the dying, outlining suggestions for freer, more fulfilling approaches to death that enable more dignified and comfortable choices.

Medicine and What Matters in the End

Being Mortal

Syrina

The way we saw it, and the way our Professors saw it, the purpose of medical schooling was to teach how to save lives, not how to tend to their demise.

Daniel Bower

You live longer only when you stop trying to live longer.

Julia <3

Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need. Lacking a coherent view of how people might live successfully all the way to their very end, we have allowed our fates to be controlled by the imperatives of medicine, technology, and strangers. 

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