Death is obvious... a taboo subject... a deadline to be postponed at all costs... Is there a way to approach it calmly?
Our society has decided to defeat it technically, to prolong life indefinitely. But as this African proverb tells us so well, “death is a garment that everyone will wear. »
As a general practitioner, Vincent Rébeillé-Borgella has been dealing with death for more than 40 years. Through a brief history of medicine and the relationship with death, he invites us to see how humanity moved from the desire to care to that of healing, then finally to that of wanting to save man from death. dead.
Is the solution immortality? or rather total control of death through assisted suicide and euthanasia? or a new perspective which recognizes the limits of life and proposes another attitude towards death, with the development of palliative care? And what about the hope of life after death? Can we heal from death spiritually?
Vincent Rébeillé-Borgella shares with us his triple experience as a doctor, a man and a Christian to provide an answer to these difficult questions which will allow us to calmly approach the fear of death and death itself.
Vincent Rébeillé-Borgella is a general practitioner in Lyon. He held union responsibilities as general secretary of the main GP union. He works with students at the Lyon Est medical faculty as a teacher in the 3rd cycle of general medicine. He supports health students and staff at his church in Villeurbanne. He is the author of the book A short practical ethics manual .
ISBN: 9782358431392