I remember this clearly because I had only just become literate on the dying process and the costs that simply not having those conversations incurred. It was s

I remember this clearly because I had only just become literate on the dying process and the costs that simply not having those conversations incurred. It was so disheartening to see such an easy win for both reducing suffering and costs get politically derailed (ironically by a party claiming it's fiscally conservative). There are so few easy wins in medicine and this is very clearly one of them.