[Pearls Before Swine]

Typical advice:

“Do it. Do it now!”

It’s cost saving to promote early termination. Maybe the advisors will get production bonuses.

[NYFriend]

I recently watch a relative with untreatable brain cancer waste away in a hospital (mostly the ICU) for months while they cut organs out, treated infections, saved him from a heart attack, and kept him breathing so everyone could visit to see whether he remembered them or knew where he was each day. The days he knew he what was going on were the worst. I can't guess what his care cost, but it was probably hundreds of thousands of dollars.

There's something to be said for dying from a massive heart attack while riding your bike.

If my doctor said, I keep in alive and bed ridden for the next few weeks, but it will mean feeding tube, and ventilator, and probably a couple of surgeries, plus it will cost the taxpayers a $100k, I'd probably ask what my other options are.