I suspect that one (amongst many) reasons for our high death rate is that the NHS is too good at prolonging the lives of some vey sick eiders who are several years beyond their 'use by' date. I say that because I have found myself sharing a ward where the social workers don't know how they are going to cope with half the patients when they have to leave. I have seen it with my father who lived a miserable final two years in and out of hospital - he would have pneumonia, they would pump him full of antibiotics, and he'd be back out again, hanging on 'til the next time.
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