[Death and dying in our time]

As modern technical medicine more and more progresses, more old and sick people die in hospitals. Therefore, there arise new tasks of dealing with dying people and their families, which the doctors and nurses are not sufficiently prepared for. The question of telling the truth to the patient and accompanying him during the process of dying is a problem of communication between doctor and patient, connected with many emotional conflicts not only for the dying patient, but also for doctor and nurses and people taking care of him. Since the management of dying people is often inhuman, it is necessary to integrate the subject of "death and dying" into the education of doctors and nurses.