Why medicalizing death could strip it of meaning

We’ve medicalized nearly everything in life—birth, aging, sleep, even boredom. Now, in the spirit of efficiency, we’ve begun medicalizing death itself. In his unsettling essay “The European way to die,” French novelist Michel Houellebecq warns that the normalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide is not a sign of progress but of profound cultural decay. I

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Why medicalizing death could strip it of meaning originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

 

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