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by FireBeyond 4810 days ago
And for the average American, between 10 and 20 per cent of your lifetime healthcare costs accrue in the last 1-3 months of your life. Beyond healthcare, America has a problem with dying and death, and a willingness to spend vast amounts of money on someone who is at death's door, often in a manner that negatively affects the quality of the remainder of their life, and for what - other people? Sometimes even for no-one.