I'm interested to islandgal, but I bet it's the funding cuts by the Arizona State Senate for Medicaid payments for several types of transplants to close the state's budget gap.

djplong, please don't take this the wrong way. Talking about our loved ones is so personal and I don't want to offend you, but what makes you think these same doctors will do any better with an end of life request than they did with your grandmother's written orders of Do Not Resuscitate?

Life isn't all black and white. I've watched friends and family members die painful prolonged deaths. Their attitudes and our attitudes changed with the days and weeks as things got better and worse in the situations. It isn't cut and dry. I certainly don't won't the government involved in my medical care or life and death decisions. That is between me and my family and my doctor. But folks, I'm afraid we've let things go too far. I'm very distressed, mad and saddened at the shape this country is in now. Not just the Obamacare.

People arguing and justifying cuts to Medicare to let more people have access to Medicaid. What has happened to the people in this great nation? People saying they don't won't to be a burden to their families and seeming to indicate the government should get involved in our end of life decisions to see that our wishes are carried out? Sad, sad, sad.