Do you believe in excessively prolonging life artificially through medicine? Why or why not?

In terms of things like life support, radiation/chemotherapy for incurable cancer, or anything that is just setting the inevitable until a later time..

I'd like to think that I wouldn't want to have things like this done if I were in the situation, but I'd want as much time with my loved ones.

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Picklebobble · 56-60, M

'Excessively' is a bit of an emotive term.
I mean, who gets to decide what excessive is ?
Should all patients of ALL ages get to decide when enough is enough ?
Should doctors get to decide whether certain procedures are 'worth' doing, given a patients age for example ?
Should people be 'forced' to accept treatment ? Given that a doctors remit is to do all they can ?