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Université de Fribourg

The Quest for a Perfect Death. Thoughts on Death and Dying in the Future

Zimmermann-Acklin, Markus

In: Proceedings from the Societas Ethica Annual Conference 2011, The Quest for perfection. The Future of Medicine/Medicine of the future, August 25–28, 2011, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland, 2013, p. 75-83

From the title of the conference I’d like to call my essay The quest for a perfect death. Thoughts on death and dying in the future. I’ve divided my text into three parts: In the first almost descriptive and hermeneutical part I give some insights into present social developments concerning death and dying in our high income societies. Inspired by the guiding questions in the program of...