AS medical science progresses and economic development leads to cleaner environments that transmit smaller infection loads, people are living longer lives. This is to be celebrated but the downside is that the quality of life often does not keep pace with the advancing years. The end of life is marked by fighting growing illnesses, in and out of hospitals. The question that arises is whether it is worth living all the additional years.
The usual response to this is, it is not in my hands when exactly my life will end; all I can do to hasten the end is. . .
