Who should get ventilators in a critical situation when there are not enough of them for everyone? Is it worth telling the patient’s relatives about the cause of death if he asked to hide it? Is it acceptable to allow operations that deliberately mutilate a person if he so desires? The author reflects on these and many other questions that are complex from the point of view of ethics and medicine, inviting readers to think too. And not in the abstract, but in the context of the laws and morals in which we all live. The text is supplemented with comments from Russian medical lawyer Angelina Romanovskaya.