End-of-Life Dreams
Whatever is happening, it is sad to hear about yet another case where doctors are too arrogant to listen to their patients and try to understand. It might not be a spiritual experience, it might be delirium. But perhaps it is important step in the human mind making peace with death. And it disappoints me greatly that the medical community shuns this phenomenon and anyone who tries to research it.<p>There is nothing worse than medical elitism. It is very unprofessional, yet still a very widely practiced problem. Having been both a medic and an engineer, I can say that it&#x27;s very common in both disciplines to have incorrect intuitions but some people are just too blinded by arrogance to look beyond them. In engineering, it often comes out pretty clearly if you are a poor engineer due to arrogance. In medicine, survivorship bias usually works against that. And if we&#x27;re talking about people who have made peace with death, I am sure they won&#x27;t fight arrogant doctors who dismiss them.<p>Overall, it&#x27;s a shame. It is clear there is abundant research and evidence about end of life dreams. And this can be very significant in understanding our fear of death, and how people make peace with it. We are naturally very predisposed to fear death, so this is very important to understand. ELDVs are also probably culturally and philosophically significant. And we don&#x27;t have almost any wisdom about them because of medical arrogance.