Diabetic ketoacidosis. Diabetic ketoacidosis is a life-threatening problem that affects people with diabetes. It occurs when the body cannot use sugar (glucose) as a fuel source because there is no insulin or not enough insulin. Fat is used for fuel instead.
end-of-life care. 1  multidimensional and multidisciplinary physical, emotional, and spiritual care of the patient with terminal illness, including support of family and caregivers.
The legal term is key to end-of-life documents such as living wills in that the patient often asks that when death comes at an elderly age, to let it come peacefully and to not engage in heroic measures or extraordinary life-sustaining treatment to attempt to avoid the coming of death.