argh, I said I wasn't supposed to get upset about the Daily Mail... I wonder what "other things" would he like to be doing with the patients rather than encouraging them and their families to consider the issue of whether, in their final days and as part of their care plan, they wish for rescucitation attempts to be made or whether they want to come under a blanket of "no, we're not training the carers to keep you going any more than we really *have* to." Perhaps the patients and their families should just get straight to considering the funeral arrangements and picking a casket - or maybe that time would be better spent doing other things too, and the patients should just be wheeled to the hospital's incinerator for convenience.