Wanderall2020

Why do people think it's a good idea to keep a human heart beating/lungs breathing at all costs (emotional, fiscal, and labor)? Why don't we value human suffering like we do our pets - i.e. allowing them to escape the worst of the inevitable decline towards death?

Fair, but worth a shot given the AMA is about someone who has studied and written about death extensively.

I'm reading that as "because, religion" - which really means no reason at all, just tradition and social pressure. Let me ask it a different way - why do people see never-ending indescribable pain as preferable to death for their loved ones?