“It’s impossible not to ration, it’s irrational not to ration, and it’s unethical not to ration” medical care at the end of life, says this professor of ethics at Harvard Medical School and director of the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health.
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Maybe as long as 20 years ago our Colorado Governor, Dick Lamm, said much the same things. He received lots of flack from his “Duty to Die” opinion. I agreed with Governor Lamm then and I agree with Dan Brock now.
I can only go by what I would want—–I cannot imagine being kept alive, in possible pain and only exisiting and not really living. This is a sentence we should not wish upon anyone. To me, that is not dying with dignity.