Death, love, and taxes: tales of resilience and humanity

Abstract

Credit: Rowena Sheehan Far too many people dying and grieving remain undersupported and feared. Dying is “as natural and inevitable a transition as birth,” says Lucy Selman, an expert in dying and grief (doi:10.1136/bmj.q2815).1 Selman calls for a revolution in end-of-life care: a comprehensive public health approach, supported by palliative care that is fit for purpose. Reclaiming dying and grieving as social processes requires demedicalisation to counter the pursuit of futile interventions at the end of life (doi:10.1136/bmj.q2703)2 and to normalise conversations about …