Originally Posted by CDSmith

After 15 years of working in a hospital I long ago came to realize that most people don't. Has nothing to do with pissing and shitting, it has everything to do with how you take it in your final days/hours. Believe me when I say a lot of people cry and whine and whale and fuss until their last breath, like after living for 75 or 80+ years death is still what, unexpected?

These people seem to live their whole lives avoiding the fact that death is one thing and one thing only -- INEVITABLE.

Accepting it with grace is what I think the term die with dignity really means. Because no amount of crying and moaning is going to stop it from happening.