An entertaining read, and even funny which is no small feat given the subject matter. I particularly liked this paragraph My wife is a physician and she used to be a hospice worker. She maintains that end of life care in modern western medicine is needlessly wasteful (it's expensive to keep someone on all those machines and medications and in a hospital bed), cruel and impractical. It's amazing that we treat our pets with more dignity. Also, Emma Watson!Wittgenstein said that “if anyone ever wrote a book of ethics, that really was a book of ethics, it would destroy all the other books in the world with a bang.” I’m not really sure what he meant. But if anyone ever wrote a book of hospital poetry, that really was a book of hospital poetry…well, I don’t know what would happen, but I bet it would be loud and angry, and that it wouldn’t be put on shiny plaques on anybody’s walls, except maybe the same people who hang Hieronymous Bosch paintings on their walls.
Bosh = angry and loud -I get that.