Melissa’s Hardest Decision: End of Life Support for Joan Rivers

September 8, 2014

(Communities Digital News) – Studies show that most patients who die in intensive care units (ICUs) in the United States do so because life support was withheld or withdrawn. Withholding and withdrawal of life support means various medical interventions are either not given to patients or removed from them with the expectation that the patients will die from their underlying injuries or illnesses.