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- Title
Futility.
- Authors
Ellbogen Jr., Martin H.; Ellbogen, Martin H Jr
- Abstract
I closed the door on beings being forced to breathe And left the hospital By way of The Healing Garden Empty Save a few denuded benches and Some skeletal trees Just weeks ago scorched with color Just months ago surging with verdant consummation. Only a few shriveled leaves flutter in the Shivery breeze Curling inward upon themselves Their veins stark grasping tentacles Dangling by slender tethers Buying time Suspended above the earth that waits for them That will have them.
- Subjects
MEDICAL ethics; FUTILE medical care; PASSIVE euthanasia
- Publication
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2022, Vol 175, Issue 5, p760
- ISSN
0003-4819
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.7326/M21-3820