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> I do hope to see our society mature a bit on end-of-life care. It looks like many countries are moving that way in the past 20 years: https://en.wikipedia.or
by sedachv 10y ago
> I do hope to see our society mature a bit on end-of-life care.
It looks like many countries are moving that way in the past 20 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_euthanasia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_euthanasia
- ceejayoz 10y agoI don't think that really shows progress. Patients who'd like to undertake euthanasia and can't would get a DNR order. Medicare isn't spending massive billions on folks with DNRs - it's the folks that won't accept a terminal cancer diagnosis and put grandma through intensive chemo instead of prioritizing quality of life that costs.