2009.06.17
Editorial: End of life care
Comfort the dying
Sen. Mark Warner's bill to expand end-of-life care should become part of health care reform.
Improving end-of-life care is not about ending life early by means of physician-assisted suicide. It is not about hurrying a natural death at all. It is about allowing people to die well when they are in the last stages of life, something many physicians and hospitals -- focused on extending life -- do not do well. Virginia Sen. Mark Warner seeks to change that dynamic by means of the Senior Navigation and Planning Act of 2009, legislation he introduced last week that he hopes will become part of this year's long-overdue attempt to reform the health care system.
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