How to Die Well | Dr. Farr Curlin
The Thomistic Institute
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Hospice and Palliative Care
Hospice and palliative care risks usurping the roles that patient family and community play in large Moriendi. Narcotics can be very useful for relieving pain and anxiety and restlessness, but they can also reduce patients capacity to be relationally present to others. These treatments can render patients passive to the process of dying. And therefore incapable of participating in the Rs. Moriendi. By diminishing the consciousness of patients, these treatments also put patients existentially out of the reach of their communities and of their clinicians.
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