Davis County Clipper | 1972-09-01 | Page 11 | Prolonging of Life

Prolonging Of Life A growing especially among the is to what extent medical science's new wonder machines and wonder drugs should be used to prolong life-when death is THE SENATE Special Committee on Aging recently heard a Duke University assistant William testify that prolonging life and relieving suffering often become confused with the result that only the act of dying is prolonged and suffering actually An yet who is to decide such a patient usually That means either relatives or doctors arc usually faced with this WHERE enormous expenses and limited means are and the condition is how many emergency special teams of arc to be The question seems certain to become a growing one in the years ahead for many Americans as medical science marches