Your mother calls you and asks you to help with a major family decision. Your maternal grandfather is 70 years old and has been diagnosed with a condition that will kill him some time in the next five years. He can have a procedure that will correct the disease and not leave him with any long-term problems, but the procedure has a 10% mortality rate. He wants to have the procedure, but your mother does not want him to. How would you help mediate this issue?

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Explanation: Considering the constraints in the scenario above, The 10% mortality rate of the surgery which grandfather will undergo in other to get rid of a condition which would kill him in 5 years seems to be quite considerable and hence a worthy gamble as he has a higher chance of survival. Also, given that grandfather himself wishes to undergo the procedure as he also has the right to decide and choose for himself. Given these reasons, I'll talk to mother and convince her to allow grandfather undergo the procedure has the chance of survival is higher and a successful surgery would afford him more years. Also not undergoing the procedure will cause him pain and eventually die in a few years.