One has to experience and feel the pain to actually feel the pain of others, I guess we all have experienced it at some stage of our life, but then, as they say, "The wearer knows where the shoe pinches".
Be it physical pain, mental pain or heart break pain, at the end of the day, pain is painful.
Coming back to the main topic, how easy or difficult is Palliative Care or Hospice Care? Is India prepared to handle the influx of older people who will get into this segment?
My take on people who are on the death bed and/or the family holding the hand;
1) Eric Clapton: You look wonderful tonight
2) Chicago: Hard to say I am sorry
3) Air Supply: Lonely is the night
4) Boby McFerrin: Don't Worry be Happy
5) And finally the song by Europe: The Final Countdown
Life is a joke and not to be taken seriously, how many of us understand the formula or remember the inventor of the wheel...... As they say, dust to dust....
But then who sang the song: I will do anything for Love and How am I supposed to Live without You?
Palliative Care and Hospice Care is real, it takes a Lion's Heart to actually get into this space, watching people die or trying the best to make them live is not for the light hearted.
I would like to personally acknowledge the work by our Knowledge Supporters Avtar Singh Cheema & Anu Savio Thelly, for the amazing work they are doing.
Pankaj Mehrotra
