Doctors of our times keep alive those who would die otherwise but have no idea why they prefer life over death. They just do and they believe doing it good. There is surely a pressure on them by the society as there is a deep fear from death in the humanity; and a belief that death is a bad event. This is weird as death is inevitable. The uncertainty is what causes fear and frustration. Good dealing with the uncertainty depends on maturity. Mankind seems so immature yet!

Doctors keep patients alive who would otherwise die based on this unfounded principle (life is over death) ignoring the long term consequences of this practice. As technology advances they will be able to keep alive the less and less capable of living which leads to a modern necromancy. The costs will grow and also the ethical concerns. We are in the middle of this process which — as a side effect — slowly deteriorates the human genome. So our well respected doctors are eventually destroying our race.

But taking the less serious diseases, from which the patient could get recovered by its own by a good chance, any intervention into the natural process is questionable as it could not only start an intervention cycle but it also takes the opportunity from the patient to learn its own capability of getting better over time by some suffering. A sick person would have a lot of time to slow down, being with self and think, if it would be allowed. These thinking would led him to the conclusion of what led to the disease and what could be done after recovery to prevent its return. Getting well by our own from a disease is a good basis of the confidence in self.

Once, healing was made by priests and with good reason. It is fine to heal the body but only when the mind and the soul are healed as well. And relief of corporeal suffering should be not made without advise of what might be the psychic and lifestyle roots of the illness and what the patient should change in its life to avoid the return or the growth of the disease in the same or in a different form.

Materialists who identify self as the body only have nothing there on the other side but a black page. The misconception of self is the main illness of humanity, first to get cured.