As a clinician, this Wall Street Journal article echoes my own views on dying, ones that are in my health directive. Maybe its the medical knowing, seeing all too often how a promise of “more time” turns out poorly. While I deeply appreciate and respect modern medicine’s desire to fight to the end, I lean, like the doctors in this article, towards “being comfortable and in control, having a sense of closure, making the most of relationships and having family involved in care.” When it’s over, gently and serenely send me on my way…
Why Doctors Die Differently Article (WSJ article is paywalled)