Editing Death (section)

== 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 19 December 1940, at [[Helsinki railway station]] in Helsinki, Finland.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Paasonen |first1=Aladár |title=Marsalkan tiedustelupäällikkönä ja hallituksen asiamiehenä |trans-title=Marshall's chief of intelligence and Government's official |language=fi |date=1974 |publisher=Weilin & Göös |isbn=978-951-35-1173-9 }}{{page needed|date=November 2024}}</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>