“Go home and live as normal a life as possible, under the circumstances.” It’s a recipe for less dying in the face of death. It prescribes seduction as a treatment for anxiety, despair, depression, and terminal agitation. What we want is lucidity (although not too much of it), painlessness, an easy go of it. What is stolen is sorrow, grieving, knowing. That is how less dying is bought, with terminal sedation or with less knowing about dying.
