>>There's a difference between saying "Doing nothing will help you" and saying "I don't know how to help you."
>>If more MD's would say the latter, there would be fewer lawsuits and our health costs would plummet.
What really needs to be said, is that we all will die.
It's easy to say when it's not staring us in the face(!) but perhaps it is better to die with dignity than to linger on as an unconscious husk in a hospital bed, kept alive as a badge of love by grieving relatives.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
