“While many people are ‘overtreated’ in hospitals with families and communities relegated to the margins, still more remain undertreated, dying of preventable conditions and without access to basic pain relief.”
The newest report of the Lancet Commission, “Value of Death: Bringing death back into life”, finds that death and dying is, in fact, a “story of paradox” in the 21st century. This report turns as a guide for our recent understanding of death as an individual and what it means for our healthcare professionals, academicians and governments.
The Lancet report confines itself to the scenario of death “when a person develops a life-limiting illness or injury through their death and into the bereavement affecting the lives of those left behind”. Those who worked upon the report included health and social care professionals, social scientists, health scientists,....
