what's worse than death?
The state that the majority of the patients ranked as much better than death was being in a wheelchair, the researchers found. Less than 5 percent of the patients ranked being in a wheelchair as a condition worse than death, according to the study.
For patients facing serious illnesses, dying isn't necessarily the thing they dread the most â according to a new survey, a majority of patients consider bowel and urinary incontinence and having to rely on a breathing machine to be fates worse than death.