[Magdalen] Alfie Evans has died

[ME Michaud]

There was an article in the New Yorker recently:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/05/what-does-it-mean-to-die

The suggestion that physicians, men and women who cherish their own
intelligence, would think a non-thinking person is not alive, has stayed
with me.

I also remember my shock at hearing a physician say he’d never medicate a
patient so heavily that the patient was unable to pray. Protocols be
damned, I guess.
-M


On Monday, April 30, 2018, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> me that doctors never have all the answers. Also, this was a black child,
> and the hospital did not take into account, apparently (nor did the legal
> system) the feelings and attitudes of African-Americans toward death and
> the dying process.
>
>