Trapped between two evils

The consequences of this continuing modernist deconstruction of mortality have brought us to the current postmodernist impasse in which dying patients are trapped between two evils: a runaway medical technology of ventilators, surgeries, and organ transplants that can keep bodies alive indefinitely and—as if this prospect were not frightening enough—an understandable but reckless public clamor for physician-assisted suicide as the only alternative to such ignominious physician-assisted suffering.