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12. There are signs that medicine may be taking a new interest in the process, partly from interest, partly from an embarrassed realization that we have not been handling this aspect of disease with as much skill as physicians once displayed, back in the days before they became convinced that disease was their solitary and sometimes defeatable enemy. (Para.8): The new interest in the process of dying can be seen in medical professionals. There are two reasons for the new interest. First, it is the professional interest. Second, the medical professionals embarrassingly realize that they can not deal with the process of dying as skillful as physicians in the old days when diseases were believed to be isolated, sometimes can be defeated. 13. Some of our technology permits us to deny its existence, and we maintain flickers of life for long stretches in one community of cells or another, as though we were keeping a flag flying. (Para.8): The development of some technology allows us to claim the non-existence of death. We believe that the sign of life of one clout of cells or another never turned off, it just passes on (to some new clout of cells). This kind of life stretch is just like holding a flag flying, without putting it down. “keeping a flag flying” here is a metaphor used to illustrate the passing of life form one clout of cells to another. 14. You can, if you like, recover great number of them many hours after the lights have gone out, and grow them out in cultures. It takes hours, even days, before the irreversible word finally gets around to all the provinces. (Para.8): If you like you can make a large number of cells alive again many hours after they died; you can cultivate them in tissue cultures. By doing so, you can delay the announcement of death on a nationwide scale for hours or even days. 15. He was so amazed by the extraordinary sense of peace and calm, and total painlessness, associatged with his partial experience of being killed, that he constru