- We want definite answers.
- We don’t have them. The only definite tings I can tell you that your father will not get younger and that he will die at some point in the future.

/1
Mass medical propaganda with its army of “scientists” armed with numbers and graphs created an unrealistic expectation what medicine is and what it can do. Precision and certainty are not key features of medical enterprise. /2
- We are causing you immense suffering by offering you a menu of technology to change the how long long the dying will take. A hundred years ago you will not be making these decisions. Being god is a job no man wants. /3
The public thinks healthcare is an appetizer menu of equally interchangeable options. Hardly anyone understands what they pick. They think they pick hope. What they pick is torture. /4

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