Why death still shocks us |
I have been a family physician in Pakistan for almost twenty years. In that time, I have seen more death than most people care to imagine. And yet, even now, what surprises me most is not death itself, but how surprised we remain by it.
Pakistan is a country of around 250 million people. Our crude death rate is a little over six deaths per thousand population per year. This means that death is not an occasional visitor. It is a daily and routine presence in our streets, hospitals, homes and families. And still, every death is treated as an unexpected tragedy, as if some cosmic error has occurred.
This is even........