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  1. Sherwin B. Nuland _ How We Die: Reflections on

    The virus has robbed them of their youth, and it is about to rob them of the rest of their"
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    It is also the recognition that the real event taking place at the end of our life is our death, not the attempts to prevent it.
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    bioengineers but by those who know who we are.
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    Although it is not always admitted, the hospital has offered families a place where they can hide the unseemly invalid whom neither the world nor they can endure. … The hospital has become the place of solitary death.
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    the last hours. In fact, they are abandoned, to the good intentions of highly skilled professional personnel who barely know them.
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    if peace and dignity are what we delude ourselves to expect, most of us will die wondering what we, or our doctors, have done wrong.
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    unattended and isolated. For it is the promise of spiritual companionship near the end that gives us hope, much more than does the mere offsetting of the fear of being physically without anyone.
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    Unless we are aware that we are dying and so far as possible know the conditions of our death, we cannot share any sort of final consummation with those who love us. Without this consummation, no matter their presence at the hour of passing, we will remain
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    So it was like the old scenario that so often throws a shadow over the last days of people with cancer: we knew-she knew-we knew she knew-she knew we knew-and none of us would talk about it when we were all together.
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    These days {if I may steal a term from the jargon of the contemporary rialto}, it is not politically correct to admit that some people die of old age.
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    We live today in the era not of the art of dying, but of the art of saving life,
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    Shakespeare has Julius Caesar reflect that: Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
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