From a Duke student doing a study. please post your opinions.
Palliative care, as you probably know, is started when individuals are approaching death. It is where treatment of the disease is stopped, and treatment of pain and symptoms are made the focus.Some may see palliative care as ‘giving-up’ and accepting death. When palliative care is mentioned, often there are other options of very aggressive treatment with small success rates. With this in mind…1) Would an atheist be less likely to accept palliative care as an option?2) If accepting palliative care and knowing that death within a few short weeks or months was nearly inevitable, would an atheist have a harder time dealing with this end of life process? I know its hard to generalize about ‘all atheists’, however I am trying to get a feel for how one who believes in atheism would deal with the process of death.
Godfrey,
I’m with cry4turtles. That was a very refreshing slice of reality. Thank you for sharing.
That is exactly the way it happened with me as well.
1. No.
2. Not at all.
If I’m going to die in a hospital, I would like to at least get a drug cocktail of ectasy, pot, laughing gas, and LSD so that I can briefly experience heaven before I go.
Also, I’d donate my body to science so that there’s not a religious funeral afterward.