We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of our friends
and beloved relations will die in a busy hospital in the care of
strangers, doctors and nurses they have known at best for a couple
of weeks. They may not even know they are dying, victims of the
kindly lie that there is still hope. They are unlikely to see even
their family doctor in their final hours, robbed of their dignity
and fed through a tube after a long series of excessive and
hopeless medical interventions. This is the starting point of
Seamus O'Mahoney's thoughtful, moving and unforgettable book on the
western way of death. Dying has never been more public, with
celebrities writing detailed memoirs of their illness, but in
private we have done our best to banish all thought of dying and
made a good death increasingly difficult to achieve.
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