July 14, 2010
Our colleagues at China Real Time Report put up this post today, looking at the best – and worst – places to die in the world.
It is based on an Economist Intelligence Unit survey called the “Quality of Death index” ranking 40 nations by the quality of care given to those about the depart this mortal coil.
We wanted to highlight one paragraph in the post – suitably, the last.
It reads: “Dead last in the Quality of Death index was India, where more people may die each year than anywhere else. Even with a lower population than China and a relatively young population overall, Unicef figures show the country had an 8% death rate in 2008, meaning around 94.5 million people died there.”
India rarely does well in international indexes of quality of anything. Unfortunately, despite billions invested by the government in social welfare programs, we now need to add “inability to care for the dying” as another black mark against the world’s second-fastest growing economy.
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