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I agree with the central point of the article. This framing does more harm than good and is a barrier that prevents people from dying on their own terms. The US is one of the worst countries in the world for this - people will press on with expensive, harmful and barely-useful treatments well into the final months of their lives because they feel like that's what is expected of them. Often from their family. And then the family does stupid shit like demand ICU/ventilation and CPR when their 85 year old grandma with stage 4 lung cancer has a severe pneumonia.