'futile life' is a valid phrase in written English.
It is used to describe a life that feels purposeless, meaningless, or unfulfilling. For example: After years of living a futile life, he finally found purpose in his work.
"We say there are no interests in preserving what is unfortunately a futile life," she said.
The lawyer appointed by the court to represent Jodie insisted that Mary's was "a futile life".
"America has not made any difference, except in making more real to me the fact that I can be comparatively happy solely by being away from V … I cannot face the prospect of dragging on again the same futile life that I have been leading in London," the letter reads.
That is why a large number of families demand what we consider futile life support for patients who clearly cannot benefit from it.
Doctors and hospitals are paid only for treating living patients, so there is always a possibility that financial incentives, conscious or unconscious, would prompt many expensive if futile life-extending measures — efforts that many patients would veto if they could.
This relates to obtaining social acceptance, one of the criteria of futile life-prolonging treatments.
In this respect, it might be considered a "futile" life-prolonging treatment.
This small study contributed to elucidating the conditions and current problems of futile life-prolonging treatment through NSD.
Published guidelines suggest variation in withdrawal of futile life-sustaining therapy and are therefore not prescriptive [ 1].
This small study contributed to elucidating the conditions that underlie futile life-prolonging treatments through NSD among participants of diverse backgrounds.
Answers derived in the first and third forums also considered imminent death to be one of the criteria for futile life-prolonging treatments.
