Older adults have to realize that it's intimacy that's important, says Dr. Gary Kennedy, director of geriatric psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center in New York.

“年龄较大的成年人必须明白，亲密才是关键，”纽约Montefiore医疗中心老年精神病学主任Gary Kennedy博士如是说。

Nancy Dubler, director of Montefiore Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who “until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient medication to control their pain if that might hasten death.”

蒙特非奥里医疗中心主任南希·都博勒认为，这项原则将消除部分医生的疑虑，这些医生在此之前一直强烈地认为，如果给病人充分的药品来止痛会加速他们的死亡的话工那就不能这样做。