Medicalized Death

Gawande discusses problems of …

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2015/03/gawande-discusses-problems-of-medicalized-mortality-in-the-us.html

In the highly personal talk, Gawande discussed how decades of modern medical advances have changed our attitudes about dying and death. As fewer diseases …

How Do Medicalization and Rescue Fantasy Prevent …

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-do-medicalization-and-rescue-fantasy-prevent-healthy-dying/2018-08

The medicalization of death: What does it mean and …

https://lowninstitute.org/how-death-became-medicalized-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/

The medicalization of death. Medicalization refers to the process by which aspects of human life become considered as medical problems. For example, low …

How Do Medicalization and Rescue Fantasy Prevent …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30118427/

Today, the medicalization of death has enabled patients to delay death, prolonging their living and dying. New technology, the influence of the media, and …

Talking About Death in America: An …

https://undark.org/2017/10/19/death-dying-america-anthropologist/

By contrast, in the United States the end of life has become so medicalized that death is often viewed as …

The “Medicalized Death”: Dying in the Hospital - Taylor

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02763893.2018.1505462

The focus of this article is on the “medicalized death” of older people who died in hospitals in Israel and the United States and is based on the experiences of four …

VSED: When Patients Take Matters Into Their Own …

https://www.nextavenue.org/vsed-option/

When It Comes to End-of-Life, Some Are Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands. It's called the VSED option — the refusal to eat or drink. The goal is to hasten …

Death and Dying - Medicalization Of Dying - Age, Aging, …

https://medicine.jrank.org/pages/417/Death-Dying-Medicalization-dying.html

Such social death, when the person can no longer express the same identity as before the health crisis, occurs days, weeks, months, or years before biological death, when the …

We’re Getting Death and Dying All Wrong - Human Parts

https://humanparts.medium.com/dying-alone-the-unbearable-sadness-of-medicalized-death-c1f4189776a3

“The COVID-19 pandemic has seen many people die the ultimate medicalized death, often alone but for masked staff in hospitals and intensive care units, …

The Medicalization of Death & Dying - UFFL

https://www.uffl.org/Vol14/colbert-04.pdf

sign of death.”9 The human soul, being eternal, can exist without the human body, but the human body cannot exist without the human soul.10 Throughout history, death has been …