42. In the atmosphere of hospital units for the mentally disturbed aged are to be found the notions that the aged “can’t stand the truth,” must be protected from “bad news,” and need to be reassured about their “conditions,” and, curiously, that therapy may prove too “disturbing.”(See footnote 4.) I submit that the hospitalized aged, already disturbed, need honesty.
45. However, I do not intend to imply that a “serene and dignified acceptance of death” is necessarily appropriate, noble, or to be valued. Those who die screaming may be expressing a rage that is as fitting as dignity.
45.しかしながら、私は『穏やかに、威厳をもって死を受け入れる』という事が必ずしも立派で、重んじるものだと推奨している訳ではありません。叫びながら死にゆく人も尊厳に値するだけの激情を表しているのです。