The Palliative Society. We live in a political, social, economic and fundamentally cultural environment that viscerally rejects all pain and suffering as irrelevant — worse, useless to our lives.

He also provides a step-by-step “owner’s manual” for our bodies to maintain a pain-free life and, when necessary, find the way to resolve pain in our knees, back, neck or elsewhere.

A medical society survey found that less than 10 percent of women who gave birth in clinics were given epidural anesthesia. A mother in Beijing says, "Pain-free delivery is not that common.