Death Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Location == [[File:Hugo Sundström - Kallio with Mannerheim.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|[[Kyösti Kallio]] (middle), the fourth [[President of the Republic of Finland]], had a fatal heart attack a few seconds after this photograph was taken by Hugo Sundström on December 19, 1940, at [[Helsinki railway station]] in Helsinki, Finland.<ref>Aladár Paasonen (1974). Marsalkan tiedustelupäällikkönä ja hallituksen asiamiehenä (Marshall's chief of intelligence and Government's official. In Finnish). Weilin, Göös, Helsinki</ref><ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.kansallisbiografia.fi/english/?id=629 | title= Kallio, Kyösti (1873–1940) President of Finland | first= Kari | last= Hokkanen | publisher= Biografiakeskus, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura | access-date= 2013-01-10 | archive-date= 22 February 2014 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140222215305/http://www.kansallisbiografia.fi/english/?id=629 | url-status= live }}</ref>]] Around 1930, most people in Western countries died in their own homes, surrounded by family, and comforted by clergy, neighbors, and doctors making [[house call]]s.<ref name="isbn0-8018-1762-5">{{cite book|last=Ariès |first=Philippe |author-link=Philippe Ariès |title=Western attitudes toward death: from the Middle Ages to the present |url=https://archive.org/details/westernattitudes00phil |url-access=registration |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore |year=1974 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/westernattitudes00phil/page/87 87–89] |isbn=978-0-8018-1762-5}}</ref> By the mid-20th century, half of all Americans died in a hospital.<ref name="isbn0-679-41461-4">{{cite book |last=Nuland |first=Sherwin B. |author-link=Sherwin B. Nuland |title=How we die: Reflections on life's final chapter |publisher=A.A. Knopf |location=New York |year=1994 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/howwediereflecti00nula/page/254 254–255] |isbn=978-0-679-41461-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/howwediereflecti00nula/page/254 }}</ref> By the start of the 21st century, only about 20 to 25% of people in developed countries died outside of a medical institution.<ref name="isbn0-679-41461-4" /><ref name="pmid16299059">{{cite journal|last1=Ahmad |first1=S. |last2=O'Mahony |first2=M.S. |title=Where older people die: a retrospective population-based study |journal=QJM |volume=98 |issue=12 |pages=865–870 |date=December 2005 |pmid=16299059 |doi=10.1093/qjmed/hci138|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="pmid11535743">{{cite journal|vauthors=Cassel CK, Demel B |title=Remembering death: public policy in the USA |journal=J R Soc Med |volume=94 |issue=9 |pages=433–436 |date=September 2001 |pmid=11535743 |pmc=1282180|doi=10.1177/014107680109400905 }}</ref> The shift from dying at home towards dying in a professional medical environment has been termed the "Invisible Death."<ref name="isbn0-679-41461-4" /> This shift occurred gradually over the years until most deaths now occur outside the home.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Invisible Death|last1=Ariès|first1=P|pages=105–115|journal=The Wilson Quarterly|volume=5|issue=1|jstor=40256048|year=1981|pmid=11624731}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page