How Important Is It to Have Loved Ones Around You as You're Dying?

I know so many people who have had family members, i'm raising my hand here as well, who have been unable to mourn collectively with their community in the loss that they've just experienced. So there's an inhumanity about the world of control. In a sense, ironically, paradoxically,  in the name of preserving life, it is actually anti life. And you mentioned in your essay the coronation, the war on death. It's like they see death also. Whoever it is that's wanting to control our current situation right now, they see it as the worst thing it could possibly ever happen. Whereas our ancestors saw it as a part of the cycle of life,.