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488. Does Death Have to Be a Death Sentence?

Freakonomics Radio

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Death in a Hospital

We now generally get a diagnosis of the thing that's going to end our life months and years in advance. So the conventional medical way, medicine doesn't know when to stop. And so then you're in this awkward position whe you have to quotanduoand pull the plug. That all gets crowded out in the flurry of acute care.

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