A heart breaking story: A tale of advanced technology, business medicine, and graceless death

I read a touching story from a daughter who lost both of her parents -- one in a long painful death to himself and to his family and the other in a graceful and peaceful death.

Here is the link to the full story in the NYTimes.

Here are the three lessons I learned from this story.

1. As a society, we tend to focus on the discovery of new technologies (pacemakers in this story) but pay far less attention on use and its impact on people's lives (patients and their closed ones in this story).
   
2. In almost every industry, companies focus on the business aspect of their products and services. Ethical thinking and ethical decisions are not much valued and practiced.
3. Funding agencies focus their funding efforts on technology discovery and development but hardly support less glamorous studies on impacts of technology.