[JoeyBananas]

This is setting the bar far too low. The system should push people in the other direction, and it should not just be a gentle push. Doctors should push hard to keep patients alive because that's what the patient (or taxpayer) pays them for. I feel like I shouldn't have to say that.

[viraptor]

That's a bit too simple view. Another case where the often applies is older people about to die, but family arrives and demands more active treatment and care. Known as the daughter from California syndrome https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/daughter_from_California_sy...

Doctor's job is to give available paths and explain possible outcomes, their likelihood and side effects. If your options are die today or die in 3 days while a machine breathes for you and you're drugged like crazy to avoid the pain... no, they shouldn't be pushing you to live.

Then, there's the whole range where it's not 3 days, but 3 weeks, 3 months, 3 years, etc. with different levels of discomfort.