Monday, March 12, 2007
At the end of life, a racial divide
An ongoing Harvard project funded by the National Cancer Institute that will involve about 800 terminally ill cancer patients in Massachusetts, Texas, Connecticut, New Hampshire and New York -- is finding that African Americans are two to three times as likely as whites to want everything possible done to keep them alive, to get life-prolonging care and to die in intensive care. A Washington Post story reports on the debate about what is a "good death."
Posted by Elizabeth Cooney at
07:06 AM
