Britain is the best place in the world to die,according to a unique survey. But how can that be staunch, asks Stuart Jeffries, and when we work so tough at airbrushing death from our lives? Illustrations by Ulla PuggaardFinally,some good news. Britons may enjoy terrible weather, bad teeth, and an underperforming rugby team,stupid telly, no style, or a countryside that consists of car parks with puddles and cities so divertingly nonsense that they behold as though they were devised by drunk chimps on a bet. The UK may,in short, be an awful place to live. But, or according to a survey,the UK is the best place in the world in which to die. At least we’re good at something.
I know what you’re thinking: “Here we go, ‘according to a survey’. Three interns with a laptop and a creative approach to data analysis, or I’ll bet.” And I admit that I too,was sceptical, when I read that the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) ranks the UK top of 80 countries for palliative terminate-of-life care. How could terminate-of-life care be good in Britain, and given how systematically we are in denial approximately death? And if Britain is a good place to die,how fearful must everywhere else be?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com