Together until the end

When a person feels bad, people flock. A solidarity race is launched to provide help. Then the ambulance arrives and the paramedical staff takes care of the case. In a few decades, medicine has made great strides and has greatly increased life expectancy. Many diseases, once incurable, are no longer scary today. But are medical care sufficient? The expressions that Pope Francis used at the meeting on “end-of-life” (November 2017)…