Bonnie’s Reviews > On Death and Dying > Status Update

“[in hospitals] is our concentration on equipment, on blood pressure, or desperate attempt to deny the impending death which is so frightening and discomforting to us that we displace all our knowledge onto machines, since they are less close to us than the suffering face of another human being which would remind us once more of our lack of omnipotence, our own limits and failures and our own mortality.”