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Palliative care, as I understand it, is given to a patient when doctors have given up on finding a cure, or even reversing the progression of the patient’s disease. The purpose of palliative care is to keep the patient as comfortable as possible, by treating the symptoms, while he is circling the drain. No doctor will ever explain it this way, but that is how I understand it.
Several decades ago, Mother Earth’s doctors advised her strongly that if she wished to live long and prosper, she had to cut down on her binge-like consumption of several highly toxic things: fossil fuels, synthetic fertilizer, plastic, toxic “forever chemicals” and the like. She and her caretakers — all volunteers who make their living from fossil fuels, synthetic fertilizer, plastic, etc. — ignored the advice and continued the binging. Continue reading