However, most people still die these days without having been resuscitated and without a clear awareness, some very suddenly and some so restricted and so disassembled that the experience of dying is not implemented on a level that can be expressed in words. Besides, medicine ensures that most patients are plied with powerful medicines when the end is near. They are then even less capable of consciously registering or even describe their experience of death. The decisive question is: How far can and may doctors manipulate the experience of death? – It suggests itself that the many examples known to him should be interpreted, so they become a reason to guide as many people as possible towards experiencing similar things. For instance, the reports by the well-known death researcher Kübler-Ross. When I read her “Interview with the dying” back then, I initially breathed a sigh of relieve because the repression of the dying process was abrogated here – almost ruthless – and a new method of dealing with the dying and assisting with dying (euthanasia) is exercised here. Based on his own experiences, he did however have some reservations, because not all forms of dying were represented in her book. Furthermore, almost all the patients the author mentions are still a distance away from actually dying that they wouldn’t have lost a certain hope of survival (be it with God’s help or a new type of medication). As a physician and a scientist, he later endeavoured to consider his own self-experience of dying and that of others more carefully. Due to his arrangements, death research protocols were initiated at the bedside of his large clinic that were however only internally discussed and not designed for the broader public. He was personally concerned with having the reality of dying and death comprehended and accepted. Dying, in as far as it is consciously experienced, can be the greatest experience ever and it is very difficult after to have to return to a physical existence once again. Approaching the incomprehensible and absolute, something that happens during the death experience, does in itself not provide information about being dead, but it gives an inkling of how all individual thoughts and awareness is elevated far beyond oneself into something INDESCRIBABLE. Experiences takes place during one’s life that one is reluctant to talk or write about. The fact that he overcame this reluctance in regards to his own experiences is due to a colleague he had got to know at a technical seminar. These two gentlemen maintain their acquaintance through occasionally visiting one another ever since. As he was standing there chasing his thoughts, he noticed a car turning into the driveway to the house. The driver must have already spotted him standing at the window, because the lights of the heavy, dark limousine flashed a number of times. The slender man smiled and pushed himself away from the window parapet and went downstairs. It wasn’t long before the bell at the front door rang. The host (G) opened and greeted the visitor (B) with a friendly hello! B : Thank you for the invitation. Abstinence is enforced by the police this time. I came by car. But this doesn’t mean that I will completely abstain. Laughing, the host took the coat of his colleague and led him into the large, comfortably furnished living room. A bright fire flickered in the open fireplace and the logs crackled and pattered. The visitor approach the fireplace and rubbed his hands. The temperature outside had dropped some more and it had started to lightly snow. – The two physicians sat down at a small table near the fireplace where two comfortable chairs were placed. The pleasant scent of freshly chopped wood and resin hung in the air. With some interest, the visitor picked up the bottle of wine on the table. B : I can see, we know our preferences, don’t we? Cheese and bread were also at the ready. And once again the fir tree branches and the beautiful nativity play were there again! Is it this time of year already? Carpe diem. All of
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