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How does palliative care distance us from the reality of death? Isn't it in a sense more natural way to go?
by Yajirobe 6y ago
How does palliative care distance us from the reality of death? Isn't it in a sense more natural way to go?
- SavantIdiot 6y agoPalliative care is designed to hide the symptoms to make everyone feel better that death isn't really happening. Palliative derives from pall, which means a covering. For example, there is a palliative care drug to hide the "death rattle" from people dying so that it doesn't make the people attending the death uncomfortable.[1] There is language in palliative care that refers to death as "passing" or "moving on", which hides the real word: death. Stephen Jenkinson described the "wretched anxiety"[2] people face who resist their death, which was nearly everyone he counseled. Because they are taught it only happens "later", and then when it happens, it should be quick, neat and tidy. This is passed down to generations when it is ignored. Since it is almost never that way, people suffer horrendously and scrabble to deny it. Death is messy and painful, and it is up to individuals to decide the consequences of trying to hide or fear the most natural of all events. What is the consequence to a culture that decides death should be hidden from sight? [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/drugs-prevent-death-rattle-dying-patients-not-justifiable-if-intention-only-reduce-distress-relatives-says-new-guidelines-10422573.html https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families... [2a] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OSGVkpyRfw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OSGVkpyRfw [2b] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLQWM2j3AVg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLQWM2j3AVg