Patients, loved ones and doctors are forced to make tough decisions in the face of death. When diagnosed with a terminal illness a patient might have just weeks or months to live. Should they fight on or accept the inevitable? Should their doctors hold out hope, however slim, or deliver the hard medical reality? These decisions are much tougher as medicine and medical technology becomes increasingly sophisticated . Patients , families and doctors wrestle with these ethical and moral dilemmas at the end of life.