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It's getting harder to die
Lydia S. Dugdale looks at the tough choices families face when medical technology can prolong a loved one’s life.
In rare instances, health care professionals can bring the patient back to life by performing chest compressions and breathing into the dead body until the heart restarts. Whereas providing artificial nutrition and hydration to the patient with throat surgery would be understood as part of treatment and indeed ethically obligatory, in the case of advanced dementia doctors generally believe that the burdens outweigh the benefits. Unintentional weight loss of ten pounds or more in the last year Feelings of exhaustion Physical weakness, measured by checking handgrip strength with a dynamometer (or, can Grandma hold her coffee cup?)
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