Where you stand depends on where you sit.
When I was an intern, it was very common to hear my peers say, "I would never want to live "like that".
After a few months, it became clear to me that most PEOPLE "like that" did, in fact, want nothing more than to keep living.
45 years of clinical practice under my belt has only reinforced that observation.
The question of PAYING for "living like that" with other people's money is a separate issue. Is it "worth living" after 75? Almost certainly.
Is it worth the people across the street going into debt to send their kid to college IN ORDER FOR you to "live like that"?
That's the issue.
Pete Townshend wrote “Hope I die before I get old”.
Today, The Who is still touring.
From 1960 through 1980 the specter of aggressive often inappropriate malpractice lawyering took from ethical physicians the discretion from making difficult but correct decisions regarding the care of seriously ill people. Also the fact that individuals and families were no longer personally responsible for the financial costs of prolonged ,futile care or are influenced by unabashed, now socially accepted quackery has led to even greater demands for such care. Those decisions both by the physician and the patient are complex and difficult under the best of circumstances. One thing is certain. Would not want the likes of Dr. Emmanuel writing “guidelines” with the force of law on how to make those decisions.