tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post2848464390883365637..comments2024-03-29T03:01:54.922-07:00Comments on bloginafog: 'Dying with dignity means dying with the least amount of suffering,'Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-66214924025013839312014-06-08T08:53:56.562-07:002014-06-08T08:53:56.562-07:00I call this blog intellectual parsing. Human dyin...I call this blog intellectual parsing. Human dying entails enormous suffering. It took my bull-man of a father-in-law who was physically strong eleven days of medically induced agony intended to save his life to die. Suffering is the theme here, and dying like birthing is suffering. The great and brilliant duc de Saint-Simon, the memoirist of the court of Louis XIV, will probably be remembered and read in the future not for his gossip, not for his historical analyses of war and French national economic failure under the monarchy, but for his excruciatingly detailed chronicles of the hundreds of hideous "natural" deaths of the French court, these chronicles of great interest to modern medicine and modern diagnosis.Marcus Billsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11308066836427766909noreply@blogger.com