Katy Butler, a science writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Science Writing, and The New York Times Magazine, writes in her article “The Problem of Prolonging Life,” about her struggling story with 80years-sick father. Katy’s father needed a pacemaker to correct his slow heartbeat, which Katy mentions later “should never installed at all.” Katy was suffering of seeing “the man …[she] loved more than Elzahaby 4 any other was going blind and falling into dementia.” Even though the pacemaker made