In the U.S., 25 percent of all Medicare expenses are spent in the last year (highly weighted in the last month) of a person's life; and most of those are over 80 years old.
We are very good at extending death, but very bad at extending life. We have this hubris-engorged notion that death is optional. Not even Christ believed that.
Loren M. Lambert © July 22, 2010
We are very good at extending death, but very bad at extending life. We have this hubris-engorged notion that death is optional. Not even Christ believed that.
Loren M. Lambert © July 22, 2010
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