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It seems clear (from real-life narratives) that there are a lot of people, mostly elderly with pre-existing conditions, who are not going to survive even if they got onto life support much earlier. I suspect that in Norway, even given the small sample, they are making more rational clinical décisions in that respect.
This may change if an effective treatment turns up. It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
Suburban Hospital, Bethesda, MD allowed my brother one week to grieve in ICU. A year ago.
So here we are. My understanding is, presses have devoted much interest in honoring the aged, condemning DNRs, and consoling the innocence of bereaved, because time is short, and there is no "effective treatment" for that.
I guess, you missed my micro-monograph on CoD, "Classification and its Consequences".
Let's ASSUME the detail drug and alcohol "abuse"/"dependence" is a count of ODs. Otherwise, engrossed; chronic intoxication being the root of pathology to irreversible organ failure, final destination. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
January-February 2013 issue of Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics found that difficulty swallowing may in turn increase the risk for "aspiration pneumonia," a common cause of death among people with Alzheimer's, due to food and liquids accidentally getting into the airways in the lungs.
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