Drive towards 'immortality' means people aren't dying with dignity anymore

A physician says we are in denial about death and have unrealistic expectations of what hospitals can deliver at the end of life. Margaret Jennings reports.

IT’S a conversation we all need to have, because, sooner or later, it comes knocking at our door.

So, 56-year-old Cork physician, Seamus O’Mahony, has lifted the lid on a sensitive topic with his honest book about how we deal with death.