This article only talks about useless symptomatic treatments, not about effort at treating root cause. If you’ve just been diagnosed with something terminal yo

This article only talks about useless symptomatic treatments, not about effort at treating root cause. If you’ve just been diagnosed with something terminal you’d want to try every experimental treatment no matter how violent or dangerous. But if you’ve already established that nothing is working and your body has begun the shutdown process I don’t see why you’d want your last feelings to be shocks to your heart, your ribs broken or your throat being cut and plastic tubes shoved in. Emergency reactive procedures (codes) for a 20 year old who had an accident on the way to the gym and a 80 year old in the last stages of terminal cancer are the same, the article is arguing that they shouldn’t be.