Dear Friends, As part of our ongoing discussion and exploration of dying, death and end of life care I thought you might find the book, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande a thought-provoking read. It was recommended to me by another friend, and reading it affirmed many of my thoughts on the modern healthcare system and how ill-equipped it is to deal with someone at the end of their life. “In the past few decades, medical science has rendered obsolete centuries...