The Good Funeral Guide

Thursday, 19 November 2009

Interesting series of photos from the Guardian taking you inside the Dignitas operation. See them here.

Jonathan said...: A step in the right direction, in the dark, it seems to me. I've always thought that, if I was dying horribly from an illness, it would be the illness I'd want to get away from, not life. These pictures look so clinical - yes, I know, it's a clinic, but that's my point. The tasteful decor doesn't hide the complete absence of nice homely germs. Even the candles look as if they couldn't burn you. The illness is the last thing I'd see, staring at me from the disinfected walls, and I'd appear to myself as a grotesque symptom of the very thing I was trying to escape - an infection to be eradicated. Clean, sterile, perhaps even painless. But a good death? No. I'd rather do it at home, without a doctor to legalize and medicalize it, but that's a long way off in an enlightened land free from litigiousness.; 20 November 2009 at 00:04
Rupert Callender said...: I'm with you Jonathan. I have heard that many doctors have a buddy-buddy system for the worst case scenario, and who can blame them. It all brings to mind Terry Gilliam's Brazil.; 21 November 2009 at 00:06