The Spirit Ambulance is a journey into decision-making at the end
of life in Thailand, where families attempt to craft good deaths
for their elders in the face of clashing ethical frameworks, from a
rapidly developing universal medical system, to national and global
human-rights politics, to contemporary movements in Buddhist
metaphysics. Scott Stonington’s gripping ethnography documents
how Thai families attempt to pay back a “debt of life” to their
elders through intensive medical care, followed by a medically
assisted rush from the hospital to home to ensure a spiritually
advantageous last breath. The result is a powerful exploration of
the nature of death and the complexities arising from the
globalization of biomedical expertise and ethics around the world.
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