Advanced Illness Care: We Can Do Better

By Bill Novelli and Raca Banerjee

There’s a wistful story noised about among gerontologists that everyone should live in good health to a ripe old age, well into their nineties, and then have life end with a quick bullet—fired by a jealous lover. But we all know that is not the way most people in America head off into the Great Beyond. Too much of the time, in our current American culture, dying can be protracted and especially painful, isolating, and costly.

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