"It was a large room bright with sunshine and yellow paint, and containing twenty beds, all occupied... The air was continuously alive with gay synthetic melodies. At the foot of every bed, confronting its morbid occupant, was a television box" (Huxley 198).
In hospice care, we attempt to make patients feel as comfortable as possible as they depart the world of the living. Keeping someone who is dying comfortable is a tall order. Getting the patient's mind off their condition is critical. To accomplish this, we distract them with things that require little effort but are engaging. If we had the technology to keep the level of atmospheric control that the World State has, we could easily keep all the people in hospice care happy up to their final moments. This is just one more example of a way in which we benefit from technological development.
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