Readiness for Death: Sybil Speaks

Shand, John (2019). Readiness for Death: Sybil Speaks. Think, 18(51) pp. 123–136.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1477175618000416

Abstract

While life has been increasing in length an increasing proportion of that life is in a state of poor health and decrepitude. Indeed, an increasing proportion of life is in that poor state because of its increased length. Medicine always fails to catch up, and increasingly so in providing a life of good health overall set by the end point of inevitable death. This requires a change in attitude from the zealous concentration on medical interventions whose chief aim is to increase the length of life, and a move to being able to consider more readily refusing some medical treatments, along with a more resigned attitude to our death, which must come anyway.

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