We’ve taught sex education, but there’s been no instruction for death and dying.

In medical school, there is very little taught about death and dying. We are basically taught about pathology, the study of disease. We learn how to fight it, how to treat it using our vast array of medical technology, which is fantastic. We’ve come so far since the days of medicine where we would just sit and watch our patients suffer and not be able to do anything.

For more of Shoshana Ungerleider’s Observations, view Volume II