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Finishing chapter 6 "letting go" I am so frightened. By the battles the terminally ill patients endured, and the idea of hope. It makes me a bit lost about people's understanding of "hope" when it comes to fighting death. As the author says, we built up a system that use hope as a plan for survival, but hope is not a plan. What does medicine really mean in the end?
— Jun 20, 2020 04:28PM
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Just finished the chapter 4 on assistance. It briefly walked us through the history from "poorhouse", where the old and disabled poor are kept in 19the century, to the founding of the first modern assistant living home. It keeps me wondering: when your parents are institutionalized in the nursing home for the sake of survival and safety, does the meaning of life means more for them than for our own guilt of piety?
— Jun 17, 2020 01:12PM
