End-of-life care should not simply be about prolonging a painful death

End-of-life care should not simply be about prolonging a painful death | Polly Toynbee We must focus on easing the exit rather than delaying the inevitable at huge expense

Of all life’s seven ages, which do people value most? Surely no one puts their final few months at the top, when all that’s left is the hope of avoiding departure through a torture chamber. Yet the UK spends most on the end of life, when there’s no future left. The Guardian