"True Stories: Dying at Home: Ideals and Reality of Home Medical Care" Eriko Sasai Price: ¥946 #ErikoSasai #Books #Society/SocialWelfare Most people wish to spend their final moments at home. However, the reality is different, with 80% of people in Japan currently passing away in hospitals. So, how does one "die at home"? What kind of final moments do people actually experience, and what do their families think? The author visited people involved in home deaths and the front lines of end-of-life care, following the latest developments in home medical care. From the candid voices revealed through years of thorough interviews, to cases unique to modern society, such as those who died during the COVID-19 pandemic and those forced to stay at home due to hospital bed shortages, the book closely examines what is happening in the current medical field. It is said that after 2025, with the arrival of a hyper-aging society where the number of deaths is expected to increase rapidly, regardless of individual wishes, a time will come when it will be realistically "impossible to die in a hospital." Even so, thinking concretely and realistically about where you will die, and facing the goal of death, leads to the question of "how to live now." This book is also a record of people living earnestly in the process of approaching death.