Category: Death and Dying

  • Too much death lately…

    I am a doctor.  I take care of patients who are sometimes very ill.  Death is a natural part of the process of being very ill, or very old.  I accept that. But, sometimes, it seems like there are too many deaths happening, and this weekend was a particularly rough one, that culminated in a…

  • The mortality thing

    OK, so I promised, a couple of days ago, to fill in on the discussions around Death (yes, with a capital D) that have been a constant theme of the past month.  We have heard, time and time again, about how J had a mommy and a daddy who died, and how he didn’t come…