Although the topic is grim, the discussion of what doctors can now do and how much they should do is exhilarating. WFB: "I think what you've bumped into is the problem of seeming to object to the aesthetic dimension of human relations. I never want

my wife to stop using lipstick. My mother, who died at 89, used lipstick till the last day, and it would have horrified me as a form of spiritual capitulation if she'd stopped doing so.... Now I don't see why a reasonable analogy of that wouldn't be popping a pill if you're going bald, simply on the grounds that it's not much trouble to pop a pill, but people kind of look nice with hair on." ... SN: "We now have a great deal of evidence indicating that more than 50 per cent of the time, the living will is ignored in intensive-care units in teaching hospitals ... Young doctors are spitfire pilots. And when you're in an intensive-care unit, although most people don't realize it, your care is being supervised by people who are on average age 40 and below--the most exciting time of a career from the point of view of solving the riddle of diagnosis and therapy."