Entangled

I agree but the type of facility seems more like hospice where the brutal truth is that it is a type of acceptable and legal euthanasia where the terminally ill is given morphine to induce euphoria so that they "feel no pain." This is usually administered by a nurse and is a culprit for death as some of the doses are unreal and morphine depresses the respiratory system. It seems to me that instead of a prolonged suffering from said illness, the duration is shortened and bearable and is only possible with consent. So, when the nurse gives the bill, that is kind of chilling when you think about it because not only the bill for payment, but the bill of death. Scary....<br /> <br /> It also reminds me (again) of the part in Brave New World where Linda (the savages mother) is prescribed lethal amounts of soma while the doctors knew it would lead to her demise. She goes on a "soma holiday" an ethereal dream-like state and is in a "transition" room before he is to head (after death) to the incinerator. When the savage goes to her, there are children there to be "conditioned" on death and they intrigued that he is in distress that his mother is about to die because they were conditioned to believe that life is part of death and the body is a useful product for the rest of society since the incineration process harvests nitrogen or something. Anyhow, the soma was her death sentence (much like morphine) and the nurse was kind yet puzzled why he reacted to his dying mother with sadness and fear. Also, Freudian sleep reminds me of how society was conditioned via their sleep and was mentioned in the book. Both this part of the book and the parallels with respite care remind me so much of this song!