With the End in Mind by Kathryn Mannix5/22/2023 Knowing what to expect, and knowing what our dear ones will see as we die, helps people to plan, to speak to each other openly and honestly, and to relax. My life in palliative care has shown me that the process of dying is made less frightening and more peaceful, the better prepared we are. Whether or not we are related to the people we hold most dear, dying is a ‘family affair.’īut so often, dying people and their families remain unprepared because our fear about death has become a fear about even mentioning dying. It’s usually possible to gather the right people in time, and help them to prepare, because for most of us, dying affects not only the dying person but also their dear ones. We can recognise the progress of life-limiting illness we can predict, less reliably early on yet with increasing accuracy as death comes closer. Just like pregnancy and birth, it has recognisable stages of progression. It’s a complicated truth: we all fear dying, and we all fear it in different ways, according to our individual circumstances and life experiences.Īnd yet… Dying is a bodily process.
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