[Symmetry]

Heroic efforts on futile attempts to keep dying patients alive have a huge cost in human suffering and we, as a society, really ought to stop making them.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay/

http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die...

[nsporillo]

Thank you for linking these. Extremely compelling articles that everyone ought to read and consider.