End of Life counseling, Reduces Cost to Loved Ones

LeBuick · Aug 8, 2009

A Harvard study shows end of life counseling, when used, saved patients cost while improving the quality of death. Why is this being presented as a bad thing?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/06/end-life-counseling-intensifies-health-reform-debate/

A Harvard study released earlier this year directly linked end-of-life counseling with lower health care costs and better quality of life for patients with advanced cancers.

Researchers, who interviewed 603 advanced-cancer patients about whether they had end-of-life conversations with their physicians, found that patients who did had an estimated average of $1,876 in health care expenses during their final week of life, compared with $2,917 for those who didn't. Patients also associated higher costs with a worse quality of death during their final week and typically did not live longer if they received intensive care.
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billwald · Aug 9, 2009

That describes my father's death, not that it directly cost the family anything personally. You all paid for his pain.

Amazing how real Christians fight "going to meet Jesus" when the doctor tells them it is time. I hope I have the guts to go easy if I am ever in that bad a shape.

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