While I think we should be engaging in these conversations simply because it helps the patient. The fact that it saves money is an added bonus making it criminal that it's not happening more.
Patients should decide what the end of life is like, study says - latimes.com: "Studies have shown that when a patient’s desires are taken into account, death is less likely to occur in an intensive care unit, physical distress is reduced, and death comes no sooner, they wrote."
