[sickoflibs]

RE :”People die, and the opportunity for humane end-of-life planning can be extraordinarily helpful for both the patient and the family members. This is also an opportunity to give the patient a real choice between a peaceful and supportive last days, or weeks of useless, expensive cancer treatments that often speed up the patient’s death, rather than extend their life, inflicting more misery on the family members as well. Don't get on the wrong side of this argument. Big money moves a lot of the recommended late-stage treatments, not humanity.”

I agree, Unfortunately I have been through this before with aging relatives, and have seen it go both ways.

Not just that people die, but many also live to a state where they are unable to make decisions and so those that refuse to plan ahead for that leave a big mess behind for someone else to deal with.

My grandmother didn't want to be kept alive long term fed by tubes and so she put that in her living will while she could still reason..And she wanted to die in her own house not a hospital.

[amihow]

You can never forsee all the issues in advance. Not wanting cpr when in last stages of terminal disease is not the same as cpr because anesthetic went wrong.

Culture of death is on the march.