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Dying Abroad
Death, it is generally agreed, is an exception from the list of social phenomena and facts of life about which man has a choice. It is given that every person must die. But, even this exceptional rule, has some nuances. The rich and powerful may not be able to make a choice about dying eventually, but they can choose where to die, almost in the same way that they use their wealth and power to choose where to live. Only the suicidal among the mass of the people can be said to possess equal leverage over where – and when - to die.
The rich and powerful may not be able to replicate their palatial edifices, paved streets, lush lawns, swimming pools and sprawling comfort, wherever their spirits end up after their death, but they can negotiate where they will die. The poor and hapless in society hardly have such a choice. Death often ravages their ranks in their helplessness, and in different forms, in a way that folds their well-being and longevity with their material poverty. Many of them do not even have the dignity of decent burials, precisely because the rich and powerful in their society have so arrange their world in a way that it is impossible for them – the poor – to die well.
But, the rich and powerful can transcend even the conditions they have created in their own society. They pursue value wherever they can find it. Where there is no competent health system in their own society – a condition of their making – they can travel out when their health is threatened. In this, they sometimes even make a choice on where to die.
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