"If you show up with cancer & you're 95 years old, we should say...we can't do anything..."

[SDANation]

54. I've seen an equal side of both.

It’s the hardest thing to do for a patient and family to make that decision to quit treatment. It’s natural to want to keep them alive, but I feel people can’t let go even though death is staring them in the face. Well educated and well intentioned people still make piss poor decisions for their family members.

I have a theory that, in the past we were born, raised, lived and died in the same house, plus we witnessed all of this with our family members, so people were comfortable with death and the dying process. But now we have shifted all death to this sterile hospital setting and in the ICU away from society so now no one is even slightly comfortable. Palliative care is truly one of the most angelic things that exists in healthcare. And is often underutilized because people equate it with death.