Dying with dignity is an issue being raised again in Ireland following rejection numerous times. Hospice care makes a huge difference for individuals and families but I dont think is widespread and available enough. I worked as a general nurse for 10 years and I personally questioned the level of interventions used to keep people alive resulting in extremely limited quality of life. I think there are wider conversations to be had. In the modern world comfort is prized and suffering is a frightening concept. I think older generations had a harder life and developed a greater capacity for suffering. *its a little hard to read, but love to see the handwritten page
Jun 6, 2023·edited Jun 6, 2023Liked by Tripp Hudgins
I really resonate with your question "is suffering undignified." I think you've hit the point when you suggest that it is not, but that culturally we have made it so. That places an added burden on the sufferer to cover their suffering for the sake of others. Suffering is human. Period. Full stop. I recommend to you Fanny Brewster's Archetypal Grief on this topic; she does some interesting writing about the ways enslavement stripped positive rituals of birth and death from Africanist culture, making the grief and trauma of the constant state of death that was enslavement even greater.
Dignity or Suffering
Dying with dignity is an issue being raised again in Ireland following rejection numerous times. Hospice care makes a huge difference for individuals and families but I dont think is widespread and available enough. I worked as a general nurse for 10 years and I personally questioned the level of interventions used to keep people alive resulting in extremely limited quality of life. I think there are wider conversations to be had. In the modern world comfort is prized and suffering is a frightening concept. I think older generations had a harder life and developed a greater capacity for suffering. *its a little hard to read, but love to see the handwritten page
I really resonate with your question "is suffering undignified." I think you've hit the point when you suggest that it is not, but that culturally we have made it so. That places an added burden on the sufferer to cover their suffering for the sake of others. Suffering is human. Period. Full stop. I recommend to you Fanny Brewster's Archetypal Grief on this topic; she does some interesting writing about the ways enslavement stripped positive rituals of birth and death from Africanist culture, making the grief and trauma of the constant state of death that was enslavement even greater.