The Importance of Quality Over Quantity of Life

"It's so hard to even talk about this because it's so deeply biased and contextualized," she says. "In essence, in the grand scheme of things that might offer, you know, in what we would see again." In a study with individuals who are dying with medical aid, they're talking about quality versus quantity of life. The question can be very confronting to scientists who have dedicated time and money to something. 'I don't know if he wants to live much longer like this,' one patient asks his doctors.