Book : How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
Author: Sherwin B. Nuland
Everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die... However even with the technological advancements, improvement in healthcare and life expectancy so far nobody has been successful in defeating the death. We live today in the era of the art of dying, but on the art of saving life, and the dilemmas in that art are multitudinous. Death is not a confrontation, it is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms. No death but diseases is the real enemy, diseases the malign force that requires confrontation. Everyone wants to know the details of dying, though few are willing to say so, whether to anticipate the events by thoughts of life's ending. To most people, death remains hidden. When we attain old age and we die in old age and for burial we need a death certificate, which a medical officer needs to produce. In the death certificate, the doctor never mentions that the death is due to old age, but he do uses medical term as the reason for the death. How we die; reflection of life is about death in old age and the reasons behind this. The author a medical professional lists that we experience dying due to stoppage of circulation, the inadequate transport of oxygen to tissues, the flickering out of brain function, the failure of organs, the destruction of vital centers as the common reasons for death at old age.
Modern dying takes place in the modern hospital, where it can be hidden, cleansed of its organic blight, and finally packaged for modern burial. Hope lies not only in an expectations of cure or even of the remission of present distress. For dying patients, the hope of cure will always be shown to be ultimately false, and even the hope of relief too often turns to ashes.
The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it.
A book to read about the causes of death in the old age.
https://www.amazon.in/How-We-Die-Reflections-Chapter/dp/0679742441
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