And months that often aren't a great quality of life and are questionably in the patients' interest. It made a huge impression on me as a kid when my greataunt

And months that often aren't a great quality of life and are questionably in the patients' interest. It made a huge impression on me as a kid when my greataunt, a physician, decided that she didn't want to be treated for her leukemia diagnosis. She died within a month (I assume it was late-stage). (IIRC, better end-of-life counseling is what the Obamacare "death panels" kerfuffle was in reference to)