How the poor die – Matter News

How the poor die – Matter News

In March 1929, George Orwell, sick with pneumonia, spent two weeks in Paris’ publicly funded Hôpital Cochin. He documented the experience in his essay “How the Poor Die,” musing that for the poor people in the hospital with him, death was lonely, painful, and bleak. He meditates on the kind of health care provided to those without resources, the experience of neglect, the loss of humanity. “As a non-paying patient, in the uniform nightshirt,” Or…