tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5231979855831826598.post4895867241983847312..comments2009-07-09T06:23:06.610-07:00Christian Sinclair, MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14685043408496367587ctsinclair@gmail.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5231979855831826598.post-77422343492861182472009-07-09T06:23:06.610-07:002009-07-09T06:23:06.610-07:00I guess there are few thing more horrifying than being buried alive. <br />But reflecting on the &#39;art&#39; of palliative medicine: are really sick (and dying) people not buried alive also? Not in their graves, but in their own body: the anxiety of breathlessness, pain, senses of desperation and abandonment; all parts I have seen (as a nursing student) that can belong to the life of a really sick/dying person. All parts that are described as the horrifying feelings experienced when someone is buried alive, except our body is our coffin; taking away the ability to be a person. In our modern world death is the part we don&#39;t want to acknowledge as a very important part of life (perhaps even the part that is making life worth living). Life is the thing we do when we are &#39;young&#39; and death is farthest from our mind. Death is scary, because we don&#39;t know it, and can&#39;t control it. Ask anyone about the way they want to die and most people would say; without breathlessness, pain and in a room filled with friends. <br /><br />From that point of view palliative medicine is constantly &#39;digging up&#39; in a forming grave: putting life in the days, removing the anxiety that comes with dying or living in the face of death.<br /><br />This part of the pallimedblog is a very nice way of using arts to reflect on this very important questions and aspects of life. I&#39;ve already written a Dutch Blogpost on this part of the pallimed blog to advertise it and will continue to do so when meeting students, teachers, colleagues and clients. <br /><br />Rock on.geriatricarehttp://geriatricare.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5231979855831826598.post-38096718224193534432009-07-06T13:30:47.581-07:002009-07-06T13:30:47.581-07:00Bram, glad you discovered us. I guess if you want to write about horror, what is more horrifying than being buried alive? I would believe that no English writer has covered this topic as much. It&#39;s not a topic I would relish writing about over and over. <br />Thanks for your comments.Amber Wollesen, MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01363380047496375863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5231979855831826598.post-67127869444779676412009-07-05T23:07:02.489-07:002009-07-05T23:07:02.489-07:00I just discovered this arts part of the pallimedblog: fantastic!!<br /><br />Perhaps a nice &#39;palliative&#39; addendum to this post about EA Poe: he appeared to be scared &#39;as hell&#39; to be buried alive. It also appears to be a recurring theme in his work. <br /><br />I read so in a Dutch translation of book by a scandinavian doctor (Jan Bondeson). The English Title is &#39;Buried Alive&#39; (WW Norton &amp; company New York). <br /><br />In fact Bondeson claims no (english) writer used the theme of being buried alive more often than Poe.Bram Hengeveldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05065123359474044081noreply@blogger.com