Living Values

Are you worth keeping alive? A committee of kind, professional strangers has done the arithmetic on Eleanor Mitchell’s life — eighty-two years old, a $1.2 million treatment, three expected months of benefit. Cost per quality-adjusted life year: too high. Treatment denied. Eleanor’s grandson Daniel inherits her research and an unfinished manuscript investigating the system that would process her — and uncovers no villains, no conspiracy, just an ecosystem where everyone acts rationally and the sum grinds people into numbers.

A literary novel by Richard Warburg
✅ 313 pages
✅ Genre: Contemporary Literary Fiction
✅ Also available as a Shakespearean verse play
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The logic is sound. The faces are kind. His grandmother is still going to die.