Hey all,
I just finished listening to this week's (the week of Jan 14th) Radiolab episode "The bitter end." The episode focuses on what it calls "a good death" and discusses the differences between doctors and the general public in their views on end of life care and life saving interventions such as cpr, intubation...etc.
One of the reasons given was that doctors know how ineffective cpr actually is or how unpleasant a lot of interventions are and that they don't contribute to what the doctors interviewed would consider meaningful life. I was wondering if anyone else had listened to it or had any thoughts on what "a good death" means both personally and on a larger level.
The episode is only 20 min if you want to listen to it.
I just finished listening to this week's (the week of Jan 14th) Radiolab episode "The bitter end." The episode focuses on what it calls "a good death" and discusses the differences between doctors and the general public in their views on end of life care and life saving interventions such as cpr, intubation...etc.
One of the reasons given was that doctors know how ineffective cpr actually is or how unpleasant a lot of interventions are and that they don't contribute to what the doctors interviewed would consider meaningful life. I was wondering if anyone else had listened to it or had any thoughts on what "a good death" means both personally and on a larger level.
The episode is only 20 min if you want to listen to it.
