When my Father in Law was in hospital riddled with cancer a Sister came up to my wife and I and sad the following. “We can continue treating him and prolong his life by a couple of weeks or stop treatment and just make him comfortable and let him have a quicker and more dignified death”. As he was in pain mainly unconcious and rambling we chose the latter. He died peacefully two days later.

So was the Sister right in asking us that or is the quantity of life more important than the quality? BTW he was 86 and had always prided himself on being smart and dignified in everything he had done.