Modern death: how medicine has changed the departure. Warraich H.

Death is the most eternal truth of our life. Whoever you are, one day you will probably die, but in the modern era this happens in a new way and is otherwise perceived by all participants in the process. The young American doctor Heider Varraich wrote a book where he tried to give the widest panorama of modern death, from molecular mechanisms of programmable death of cells to legal battles around voluntary euthanasia of incurably sick people. Compared to the middle of the 20th century, all aspects of the end of our life have radically changed - why we die when we die, where we die and how we die. As a result of the progress of medical science and medical technologies, even the definition of death itself is now formulated differently, to say about its ecology, epidemiology, economics and ethics. During this time, American medicine has gone a huge way of mastering new approaches to death and dying - a path that Russia has yet to enter into some respects. In his debut book, Dr. Varraich talks about today's rituals of death and its modern language - and based on his experience of the attending physician in the intensive care unit of a large American hospital, it thinks about what our ancestors were better and what we clearly surpassed them.