What is Conscious Dying?what similarities do you see in these two thresholds? How is viewing death as the opposite of birth different than viewing death as the opposite of life?

What is Conscious Dying?

Consider the following quote from Roja and Estes (2016): “Conscious Dying asks nurses as primary healing instruments (NPHIs) to be the ones embracing the truth that, though death is often “managed” in medical systems, death itself, like birth, is not a medical event. Death is not the opposite of life.

Death is the opposite of birth. Death and dying deserve to be held in such a way that the human being can face death and experience it as a rite of passage.” (Rosa & Estes, 2016, p. 337).

In seeing death in the perspective as the opposite of birth, what similarities do you see in these two thresholds? How is viewing death as the opposite of birth different than viewing death as the opposite of life?