Extremis

9/11/2026

I think that there are some places that cameras just don't belong - and an intensive care unit that's home to a couple of terminally ill patients is just one of them. To my mind, it doesn't matter if it gives us an "insight" into some of the appallingly difficult ethical dilemmas faced by families and clinicians because any such access can only serve to reinforce what we already believe about people's right to choose their own exit strategy. I think it's fair to say that most governments - even societies in general - don't trust their individual citizens with such momentous decisions, yet when you watch features like this that do - as one contributor reflects - look like a form of torture, you wonder why we don't put the life cart before the horse and insist that people make living wills e