[super7man]

There was something very un-natural about my father-in-law’s last two years. He was very sick, leukemia, arthritis, heart running at 30% capacity; nonetheless, the medical system spent probably $1,000,000 on carte blanche testing and treatment. And the entire time my f-in-l was in pain and felt like hell during chemo.

I know, it was his call to receive all these treatments but it is not the “quality” of life I want when I get to that point.

[giotto]

If your FIL chose to undergo the treatments, it must have been worth it to him. No one can decide another person's "quality of life."

As for the cost of his care, so what? Why do we assume there is only a limited amount of medical care available? Where there is demand, the market will increase the supply. More demand, higher wages for the doctors, medical technicians, etc. Higher wages, more people are eager to enter the field. It's only when the government steps in that the whole system breaks down.

[stanne]

No, it wasn
t his call, really. the medical system takes over. Even with a living will, they’lll ignore it. The medical system thrives on sick people and those in it, doctors, big pharm, take and take. But that $ will run out. It already did a long time ago.