When to let go? Medicine's top dilemma

This article from Reuters.com discusses the issue of the ability of technology to sustain life even when by many standards sustaining life is futile, raising questions of quality of life and the right to die. Excerpt below.

By Tom Heneghan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A terminal leukemia patient must have daily blood transfusions or die. A family begs doctors to do everything possible to keep their elderly mother alive. Parents cannot accept their newborn baby will not survive.

End-of-life issues top the list of ethical dilemmas hospitals face as medical progress enables doctors to extend an endangered life to the hard-to-determine point where they may actually only be dragging out death...

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