We have become a society that treats death as a medical problem rather than a natural ending to a mortal body. The treatment for death is never successful, for in fact, death is one-hundred percent fatal. But this simple truth does not keep us from trying.
In our attempt to rescue the dying from death we often subject the patient to uncomfortable and sometimes tortuous instruments of “new and improved” modern instruments of medicine.
Patients and families find themselves on a train gathering speed upon medical system tracks expecting to be delivered to some destination other than death. They huddle close with hopeful thoughts failing to notice the suffering of their fellow passengers or even their own. That is, until the train derails, and it always derails.
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