Jonathan Rossuli, a doctor of the Department of Neurological Surgery at Staten Island University Hospital, said learning more about these experiences could help people who are dying and feel turmoil become more comfortable with the thought of death. He added that treatments to help ease the discomfort could help dying quote become less mysterious and subsequently less frightening. End quote. Dr. Catherine Mannix, who specializes in palliative and end of life care, previously described dying as simply being, quote, a process