X-Message-Number: 26798
From: "marta sandberg" <>
Subject: Will We Ever Arrive at the Good Death?
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:23:37 +0800

From The New York Times:

Will We Ever Arrive at the Good Death?


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/07/magazine/07DYINGL.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087&en=413e43cf5cddaca4&ex=1139284800&rd=hcmcp?p=0492Qm0492Rx4zRHJ012000mGmpXGms1&nl=ep&emc=ep

The article is long, but it contains enough interesting bits to hang in 
there.

For example, take this small snippet  when physicians are asked whether they 
will abide by a patient's advance directives, like do-not-resuscitate 
orders, the majority of them say, in essence, ''It depends.'' In July of 
last year, the Archives of Internal Medicine published a survey that found 
that 65 percent of physicians wouldn't necessarily follow a living will if, 
for example, its instructions conflicted with the doctor's own ideas of the 
patient's prognosis or expected quality of life. 

Or this snippet  But death doesn't usually announce itself in advance, like 
the Grim Reaper knocking on the door in an old New Yorker cartoon. The major 
killers have idiosyncratic ''dying trajectories,'' says Lynn, most of which 
make the prediction of the actual time of death virtually impossible 

It is a well-written article that looks sympathetically at this difficult 
area.  A lot has been said in this forum about the best way to die from a 
cryonic perspective, but I am not sure that everybody understands just what 
is involved in the dying process.

If you have the time, it would be helpful to read the article carefully

Marta

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