Religious preference and practice

I work in a Catholic Hospital and of course our ICU gets a variety of patients from all different religions like everyone else. As Intensivists, we get very frustrated with families of patients who are in essence living in a people farm with a trach and a PEG, or the patient is terminal in the ICU in the vent however, the family wants everything done (happened to me yesterday), but my question to the group is would your frustration change if you were to know that the reason for this decision...

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