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This is a very touching and generous post. I remember the kinds of diet and treatment advice my partner would get when she was fighting cancer, all of it well-intentioned, and wish those people had read this article.

I came to the thread to recommend a recent book by Atul Gawande, Being Mortal, http://atulgawande.com/book/being-mortal/, which covers the difficulties of dying (from age or from illness) and touches on many of the same points as this amazing post.