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The cost of dying

"Families cannot imagine there could be anything worse than their loved one dying," says Dr. Ira Byock, director of palliative medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. "But in fact, there are things worse. Most generally, it's having someone you love die badly." On CBS-TV's "60 Minutes" program Sunday night, Byock told reporter Steve Kroft that many Americans spend their last days in an intensive care unit, relying on uncomfortable machines or surgeries to prolong their lives a few more days or weeks at enormous cost.

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