A well-equipped passing away

Abstract

Death, mainly in the occidental culture, was always faced by a strong reaction. This reality can be confirmed everyday, where we can see that children are more and more separated from the death intimacy. To escape from that reality, medical science, with the help of the high technology, searchs for options to remove the “ghost”of death. The proposal of this article is to consider the use of technology, which at the same time that extends life, brings also suffering to the patient, family, professionals, and to all those who are responsible for the costs of the hospitalization. The author calls the attention to the following: While one expends a lot of time and money trying to avoid physical death, little or almost nothing is done to avoid other types of death that frequently are worse than the physical death.