Opinion: Can dying people really will their body to stay alive for a final event?
Earlier this spring, Pope Francis was hospitalized for more than five weeks. A pneumonia riddled both of his lungs, and his doctors thought he was in imminent danger of death.…
Earlier this spring, Pope Francis was hospitalized for more than five weeks. A pneumonia riddled both of his lungs, and his doctors thought he was in imminent danger of death.
But he recovered enough to return to the Vatican and appear for one last Easter Sunday Mass before his death the following day from complications related to a stroke. It made me wonder: In its twilight, can the human body hold on long enough to let the person make it to one final moment or action?
