Candidly written, On Death Without Dignity: The Human Impact of Technological Dying, attempts to re-humanize the inevitable biological occurrence called dying. It is Moller's view that through the advancement of medicalized technology, has come the demise of the contemporary dying process. The oncological death is reflected as failure in the part of modern medicine, the physician, and the hospital; yet the patient experiences alienation, stigma, helplessness, and normlessness. Yet as a culture the current societal approach to the dying—silent avoidance—only adds to this alienation. Society has failed to provide the necessary rules for this universal, social, and biological event.
Moller, an advocate for the dying, tells their story and seeks to reduce their socially enforced isolation. He stresses the importance of the inventing of social rules and behaviors for this social phenomenon of oncological dying. Social response must transform from this medicalized, technological state back to the natural, social experience it is and bring the suffering and tribulations of the dying out of the social deep freeze of isolation and silence.
