Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2025/08/measuring-the-quality-of-death/
Medicine is the collective, warring, practical implementation of some of our most fundamental, important views on the human condition. What do we think can and should be done about the existence of suffering? What is the purpose of life? What do we do about death and its consequences? The development and provision of medical services inevitably requires these questions to be answered at some point by most of the people involved. Why start a career in medicine or medical development? Why continue it? What to focus on? Where does meaning arise in this life choice?
Medicine is largely a response to suffering. But it cannot only be a response to suffering, because there are two paths to alleviating suffering, as we all know. The first path requires no medicine in its simplest implementations, and is to bring as quick as possible an end to the life of the suffering individual. Medicine exists because this is rarely…
Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2025/08/measuring-the-quality-of-death/
Medicine is the collective, warring, practical implementation of some of our most fundamental, important views on the human condition. What do we think can and should be done about the existence of suffering? What is the purpose of life? What do we do about death and its consequences? The development and provision of medical services inevitably requires these questions to be answered at some point by most of the people involved. Why start a career in medicine or medical development? Why continue it? What to focus on? Where does meaning arise in this life choice?
Medicine is largely a response to suffering. But it cannot only be a response to suffering, because there are two paths to alleviating suffering, as we all know. The first path requires no medicine in its simplest implementations, and is to bring as quick as possible an end to the life of the suffering individual. Medicine exists because this is rarely…
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