pimg class=”alignright size-full wp-image-54607″ src=”http://cdn.marksdailyapple.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/living-will.jpg” alt=”” width=”320″ height=”213″ title=”How We Die: End of Life Planning | Marks Daily Apple” /Last week’s post on the a title=”Our Primal Fear of Dying” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/our-primal-fear-of-dying/”fear of death/a got quite a discussion going, and I appreciated the perspectives that folks shared on the subject. One interesting issue that people raised involved the circumstances of dying itself #8211; specifically dying within a traditional medical setting where interventions and technology to prolong life abound. It reminds me of the old a title=”Goodreads” href=”http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2989-i-m-not-afraid-of-death-i-just-don-t-want-to” target=”_blank”Woody Allen quote/a, “I’m not afraid of death. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”/p
pstrongAs a whole we do, indeed, die differently these days compared to our ancestors/strong #8211; certainly a title=”Who is Grok?” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/about-2/who-is-grok/”Grok/a and his clan but perhaps even our grandparents/great-grandparents. Science, to its credit, has developed ways to save and even restore quality of life in situations that […]

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