What is so frustrating is that situations like this are becoming so common as if we are being overwhelmed by the new death push. Many of us, as in in our own family, can now recognize that nudging for what it is although at the time, unaware, we found ourselves almost accepting of the inevitable.
Doctors who hold such ultimate high esteem in our minds bolstered by decades of reinforcement become omnipotent and we dare not question their authority. So when they push the idea it is time to MoveOn to death, many simply accept.
Yes.
Similarly, we still hold teachers and "education" in high esteem though education had been all but totally eradicated by 1900 by the socialist reformers of that era. Education means the transmission of civilized values from one generation to the next. Nowadays, public schools labor mightily to stay "value-free" and good values are usually illegal. If a government school today stumbles into five minutes worth of actual education, it is a complete accident.
All reform movements depend on the moral capital of the very systems they attack. Reformers, knowingly or not, smuggle their values from the religious belief they mock. Western civilization is still held together with Christian morality, though our defenses are thin and tattered, and under constant attack.
If the reformers think civilization is so bad, wait till they experiences the joys of Dark Ages.