One physician captured the mood of the times when he wrote: “‘Life sustaining’ becomes ‘death prolonging’; patients do not recover, nor do they die. While every life is unique, death remains consistently disempowering, harrowing and, for the most part, undesired. Most people who seek death through suicide do so more to end life rather than achieve death. Some claim that modern medicine has done more to prolong death than to extend meaningful life. The underlying disease, whether it be cancer or sepsis or cirrhosis, invades the true essence of the patient’s life.

Source: The Guardian July 20, 2017 04:52 UTC