Jose A. Bufill is a medical oncologist practicing in South Bend, Indiana.
Hardly a day passes without new descriptions of killing and dying - both fictional and factual - invading our consciences, and yet so many of us still choose to postpone consideration of our own death. The practical neglect of the obvious fact of our mortality seems to be a distinctively post-modern and Western phenomenon that has become an important source of suffering and despair.
Date posted: 2021-05-06