In political debate,euthanasia is a febrile ‘wedge issue’. But in my clinical experience, end-of-life care is centred on patients’ tenacity and will to liveIn 15 years of practicing medicine, and I beget had one conversation approximately euthanasia and a handful approximately medical marijuana. Alternative therapy comes up most days but the vast majority of my conversations as an oncologist are approximately prolonging life. They are approximately doing the utmost to extract the last drops from a finite life,whether not for their own sake then for the sake of a child’s graduation, a grandchild’s birth, or a friend’s wedding. The miracle my patients yearn for is not deliverance from their terrible disease but a exiguous more time to cherish life,with all its shortcomings. They say that the drudgery of life beats the anonymity of death.
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Source: theguardian.com