What doctors want (and what they don’t)...

Dr Barry Condon

“If I was very ill and had a lot of suffering and I was comatose I wouldn’t want to be maintained or sustained. I wouldn’t like to be resuscitated just for the sake of keeping me alive. That would be something not fair to those around me, to be looking at somebody lying there and probably no hope of a full recovery.

“I wouldn’t burden anybody to have that task in hand. Going to extremes to keep a person alive, taking up valuable space in hospital — you have to have a proper perspective.”