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Let’s Talk About Dying: End-of-Life Planning
Health + Medicine
Let’s Talk About Dying: End-of-Life Planning
by
Jessica Nutik Zitter
The desire to escape death, combined with the widespread availability of life-prolonging technology, has led to patients often getting swept onto what I call “the end-of-life conveyor belt.”