Dr. John Sentamu on death and caring for the dying | Curious ...

?Death should not define who we are?? it should be a natural?extension of how we are in life.? Every minute someone dies in the UK, but death is all too often shut away?? it is often on a hospital ward or within a care home rather than at home or in a familiar place.? A century ago, we would have most typically died at home surrounded by our extended family.

As a result of keeping death out of sight and perhaps conveniently out of mind, we have developed a culture that is increasingly lost for words when approaching the subject of dying.? We simply don?t know where to begin.

We are collectively far too prone to medicalise and institutionalise?dying, rather than accepting it into our homes and communities, where most of us would choose to die.? We also fail to value end of life care appropriately.?

~ Dr. John Sentamu

I?m beginning to like this Sentamu bloke.? The Anglicans should make him their next Archbishop of Canterbury.? He couldn?t do any worse than Rowan Atkinson Williams.

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