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Long before a stroke disabled her right side and a subsequent fall rendered her comatose, Maxine Cail created a living will that stipulated no heroic medical interventions, no feeding tubes, no respirators. As she drifted in and out of a coma, her husband, John Cail, and his sons called Alive Hospice
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Medical technology increasingly blurs the lines between life and death, said Stuart Finder, senior associate director for the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. And, when a controversial case grabs the public's attention, it changes how everyone talks about death and dying. Terri Schiavo, for example, was a turning point, with people debating whether keeping her alive in a vegetative state was cruel or if removing her feeding tube and letting her die was murder.
How we die has changed... Hospice eases the way as decisions grow more complicated
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