Helping Patients Face Death, She Fought to Live

Fighting to live at the age of 41 is one thing; fighting to live at, say, age 88 is quite another.

WHY? 88 can be just as vital as 41 or any other age. We don't let children decide for themselves.

Dr. Pecker, her mentor, said he would have reassured her that she was not betraying her principles by refusing to go to hospice. “I think that how you want to live, and what you choose to do is different than what you might recommend to someone else,” he said.

She accepted palliative care.

Hospice is death row without the hope.