Ken Murray, who was a private physician until his retirement, published the essay “How Doctors Die” on November 30, 2011 at Zócalo Public Square, which is a project for the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University. The essay is about how having extensive medical care in terminally ill patients is irrational. Usually, people in this situation have two options, a fulfilling shorter life versus a longer painful life as the illness is going to cause death anyway. Murray’s audience for this essay is the American families of those who are terminally ill patients as well as the patients with terminal disease themselves in the United States. He also showed how physicians feel during the operation of “futile care;” this is when “doctors use the cutting edge technology on a grievously ill person near the end of their life.” However, he admits that the majority of physicians do not want this kind of care for themselves. In the essay the author wrote from a professional doctor´s perspective, and he used many extremely effective anecdotes to like Charlie and Torch´s story to appeal to his audience feelings by showing how a life of quality with family and friends and doing pleasurable things is better than trying out new procedures and living a poor quality life. Charlie, a highly respected orthopedist was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Instead of spending a lot of money and time for a chance at five extra years of pain, he focused on spending time with family and feeling as good as possible. Torch, Murray´s cousin, was diagnosed with lung cancer. He had the option to undergo three to five weeks of chemotherapy in order to live for about four more months. Torch rejected the treatment and decided to only take pills for brain swelling. Consequently, he lived eight more months doing a bunch of things he enjoyed, and his costs for those eight months was about 20 dollars. He also told Jack´s story to show how the sys