People can die from giving up the fight
How on earth do you separate causation from correlation in such cases?<p>To actually know this you'd need a group of random patients to "give up the fight" and compare them to a control group.  And you'd need the caregivers to <i>not know</i> which group is which.<p>A coach tells the team: "you lost because you gave up" -- to which they respond, "we gave up because we lost."