As much as we’d like, it’s not so easy to die in a dignified manner.
Things can get messy as we fall prey to disease and the ravages of old age.
That we pretend otherwise only makes death’s grip the harder to accept.
That was the logic of Dr. Sherwin B. Nuland, a surgeon and author of “How We Die.”
Nuland passed away earlier this week at age 83 from prostate cancer.
His medical career as a surgeon put him in frequent contact with death, but it was his brother’s battle, and ultimate death, with…
To die with dignity depends on our words, deeds of today
