"Death Squads" by Obama. I was disappointed to see this part of the debate die such an early death (there's a pun in there some where).
It quickly became such a hot political issue and was so over hyped by Republican's it never got the time the subject deserves. It is a VERY relevant question when you consider our aging population. DOES the 80 year old lady qualify for a liver transplant? At who's expense? In terms of money AND in terms of someone else's life.
We absolutely need to talk about hospice care, end of life counseling, limiting extraordinary measures to preserve life "at all costs" and provisions for a more natural path toward death.
MOST people when asked if they would prefer to die at home would answer yes. Fact is FEW people actually get the chance to do that. They WILL be "forced" in most cases to an ambulance, taken to a hospital and given "extraordinary" treatment to preserve their life.
That "living will" or "trust" you got that specifices "no extraordinary actions to revive"? Good luck with that, it's a crap shoot if the doctors/hospital acknowledge it or not. The doctor may well revive anyway, just to CYA. Such papers (Trust, Wills) offer little more than "hope" in reality.