End-Of-Life Care Needs An Overhaul (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

The way we die in America can be heartbreaking in itself.  Off in the hospital.  Not at home.  Surrounded by strangers, tubes and beepers.  A big report out last week says there has to be, there is, a better way.  But that we’ll have to overhaul much of our system for end-of-life care to get there.  It calls for a way of American death that is more informed, more humane, and – by the way – less expensive.  We’ll hear those findings today, and talk to Rahm Emanuel’s brother Zeke, who says he wants to go at 75.  That gets political.  This hour On Point:  How we die – and maybe, when. / Tom Ashbrook

Interview:
https://onpoint.wbur.org/2014/09/23/end-of-life-care-health-care