These are the sufferings which are beggared and misapprehended and sedated as “existential death anxiety at the end of life,” which are psychologized and counseled as “trauma of separation and loss.” We cannot, though nothing seems compelling enough to make us see it, contain, control, limit, treat, anesthetize, or analyze that suffering to the point where dying people do not suffer it, and our continued impoverished take on what is happening when dying people suffer deepens and extends their suffering. The enormous use of sedation on dying people ploughs them under to the point where those of
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