If ‘progress’ refers to the long-held Enlightenment idea and ideal that rationality and its tools can unequivocally improve life and reduce suffering, then ‘postprogress’ characterizes today’s medicine….Postprogress suggests that technical ability and more and more interventions, while they extend wanted life for many, also bring with them existential quandaries about one’s own relationship to medicine, to suffering, to more life, and of the apparent control that can be exercised over the timing of death.