Death is the source of all those contradictions that lead us through our existence. How to give consistency or find coherence to the foundation of life if our conclusion is to perish like the bad ending of a movie? That's where faith, beliefs and so forth come in, but still the gap is very difficult to fill.
From human reason, the arrival at the end can be approached in very different ways. Those of us who remain are going to see those who leave. As some of those people who have been with us leave, we are faced with phases of denial, doubts, dark certainties about our own bones ...
I recently participated in one of those scene outings. The person who left us was that age in which the fairest thing is to exit the forum, without pain or noise. The person himself already asked for the forced one at the arrival of his time, even from a doctor who attended him. But the case of this person is that of the soul in peace that knows what is up to him. Because dying according to what age is naturalized through organic wear and tear, the gradual arrest of cellular processes. Death, as a loss of functions and parallel consciousness is what it should always be.
Dr. Kathryn Mannix knows a lot about life, death and their transition, who has served a painless way out through palliative treatments for bodies that should not yet be prepared for death. Forty years dedicating himself to alleviate pain, to mitigate feelings of defeat before the imminent end. A learning dumped in this book that addresses the very disparate experiences gathered by the doctor. A very valuable synthesis that will surely try to bring out the best of the worst. It is not about putting hot cloths to death, the harshness of some situations experienced by patients or relatives also appear, in the opposite corner to scenarios that even provide a touch of humor. And between both extremes, learning, the search for the best answer when death is around us in our own flesh or in people we love.
Soaking up wise impressions and the naturalness of our own vital limitations can serve us at any moment of our passage through the scene of life. As long as we have the time, our time, to recognize our fragility and consider what survives us, the necessary intention to seek our work will help us to consider our tragicomedy as an opportunity to be happy and make others happy.
You can now buy the book When the End Is Near, an interesting volume about life and death, written by Dr. Kathryn Mannix, here:
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