Doctors die with grace and dignity
Most non-medical people develop a false belief that modern medicine can prolong the quantity of days a person will live, and that "doing everything" to prolong life will result in a high likelihood of a good quality of life thereafter. For this reason, I think that every person should spend a minimum of six weeks shadowing a respiratory therapist, nurse, or doctor. Doing so would cause people to learn three things: Everybody dies Death does not always come easy Bad things happen to good people You cannot take the risk out of life Everybody dies . As recently as the turn of the 20th century most people dealt with death on a regular basis, as the life expectancy was not that great. Today, however, thanks to better medicine, people are living longer. This has made it so people don't see death often, and so they develop this false perception that people don't die, or that they will live forever. Death does not always come easy . So they develop this false perception...