Allow modern medicine to relieve agonizing end-of-life experiences | TheHill

In early November, doctors in Europe used gene therapy to save the life of a boy who had a genetic disease that had destroyed most of his skin. Fortunately, we as a society regularly benefit from the miracles of modern medicine — that is, until we are about to die. Then our laws and medicine unnecessarily fail us.....
http://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/366374-allow-modern-medicine-to-relieve-agonizing-end-of-life-experiences

We’re Bad at Death. First, We Need a Good Talk.

Her last conversation should not have been with me.

I’d just arrived for the night shift in the I.C.U. when her breathing quickened. I didn’t know much about the patient, and the little I did know wasn’t good: She had cancer. Her lungs were filled with fluid. As her breathing deteriorated and her oxygen levels plunged, I searched the chart for her wishes in an emergency. Nothing....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/upshot/were-bad-at-death-first-we-need-a-good-talk.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_up_20170510&nl=upshot&nl_art=0&nlid=78638145&ref=headline&te=1&_r=1