Tag: death with dignity

• A Right to Die?

  Death is a word most doctors avoid; it is a defeat. Anathema. It is, in all their texts, in all their studies, blasphemous. Heresy. And my specialty is certainly not immune. In Obstetrics, it is an especial desecration: we are so used to dealing with the opposite that the very word, let alone the concept […]

  gozzter

  August 7, 2014

  Uncategorized

  alpha and omega, assisted dying, Bill Moyers interview, Death, Death in Obstetrics, death with dignity, Desmond Tutu, Do not go gentle…, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Campbell, the right to die