Death and Dying, Piemonte and Abreu
Last updated on 13 Jul 2022.Review and notes on Death and Dying by Nicole Piemonte and Shawn Abreu, MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series.
- When is life still worth living?
- Does everyone have the right to determine how they want to die, in parchment and in practice?
- Modern medicine’s conception of death is as failure: this metric is the primary shaper of end-of-life default practices.
- It is more unconscionable to let a patient which wanted to live to die than to let a patient which wanted to die to live.
- Is this right? Would a visible deconstruction of life and death be informative here?