Elephant in the room: we need a shift the way we perceive death and dying
Palliative care aims to affirm life, and regards dying as a normal process. As a society, we still resist this truth.
As Benjamin Franklin famously observed, in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. However, we often deny the inevitability of our own deaths until the last possible moment. This denial colours the way in which we, as a society, approach death and dying, with predictabl...
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