End-ot-lite decisions in Dutch medical practice

In the end, death comes to us all. This reality has not changed during centuries of attempting to unravel the mysteries of life and death. Even today, death is the most unescapable event in each human life. Life and time before death, however, have altered considerably. At least two changes are responsible for this. The first is that, over the past hundred and fifty years, man has succeeded in changing his condition in such a way that, in the well developed countries, average life expectancy has doubled. The strongly reduced perinatal and infant mortality have caused death to disappear almost... Mehr ...