But once that threshold is crossed—once “very sick” becomes “dead”—everything converges into a single pathway. Ultimately, there is one treatment protocol for death: CPR, oxygen, and a small handful of medications. Unlikely as it seems, whether the cause was a heart attack or malaria, the treatment of death is always the same. And so, just as death is the final landing place for all the divergent and individual lives that came before it, the medical treatment of death, too, is a final common denominator.
