Delusion of immortality

Prof DrViyatprajna Acharya
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As doctors also we can not predict whether a child in womb will be born alive or not , such is the ephemerality of life. Death is announced the moment a child is born and yet every one wants to be immortal.
This was one of the questions by the Yaksha to Yudhisthira- What is the strangest thing that you encounter on this earth? In reply he said though every day people are dying, everybody thinks I am immortal. That is the greatest “maya”, that is running this world and the healthcare system.
At terminal stages also when people are brought to the hospital, doctors put forth their maximum efforts to save a life but even when there’s no point of return, kith and kin do not want to take their near and dear ones out of the ventilator/life support.
This deluded behaviour of patient attendants create few problems, the real needy ones do not get an ICU bed (certain people have bitter experience of going from hospital to hospital seeking an ICU bed), the doctors are unnecessarily blamed though the decision is entirely upon the patient attendants.
There is a morbid fear among attendants also to face death, they want the process should be inside the hospital. Certain people can’t handle their emotions and even do not retreat to hackle the doctors or healthcare givers.
Hence, along with ‘art of living’, with time being there in hand one must also learn the ‘art of dying’ and accept facts. One must understand that hospitals are like workshops of body and not the guaranteed haven for immortality!
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