Sarah Palin has been mocked for her comment about "Death Panels." But the English National Health Service in essence has some sort of bureaucratic rules that are essentially a "Death Panel." Here is a report on the situation with the NHS. I recall getting several calls from my cousins when my grandmother was about 85 that Grandma was in bad shape, not responding, etc. and Doctors thought the end was near for her. But she always got better, and was lucid right up to her death at 94. Experts have a hard time telling if people are about to die, especially when they have been given medications to which they have reactions.