About $67 billion — nearly a third of the money spent by Medicare — goes to patients in the last two years of life.

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“In the last days of her life, Annabel Kitzhaber had a decision to make: she could be the tissue-skinned woman in the hospital with the tubes and the needles, the meds and smells and the squawk of television. Or she could go home and finish the love story with the man she’d been married to for 65 years.”

The Way We Die Now, NYTimes.com