@futurebird Sending love and what peace we can muster.
You're so right. We don't need to live like this.
As I sat in a hospice ward yesterday, a nurse came in to check on all of us. There was a quiet in the room for a while and the nurse spontaneously said, "I don't think very many people are going to keep living as long as she has."
Someone else said, "Especially now how we've fixed up our health system lately."
Nurse sighed. "No. Not like that."
She quietly retreated to care for others.