Dahshan’s Reviews > Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End > Status Update

Chapter 2 "Things fall apart"
Takes us from the very good introduction of chapter one to explaining the fragility of human beings and how every system, organ, even every cell heads automatically to pathology, weakness, fragility and invetable mortality.
Baving a good way for chapter 3 "Dependence"

chapter 1 introduces the central theme of the book: modern medicine excels at keeping people alive but struggles with helping them live well when facing aging and mortality.