A sequence of 3 stories, in reading order.
A man sustained by machines in a hospice above old Earth fights for his life through an AI surrogate in the final arbitration.
In the hospice above old Earth, a paralysed man answers the arbitration question with neither yes nor no, and the system encounters a state it has no name for.
The complete closed file of an orbital hospice's arbitration committee, which was asked to rule on a patient who answered neither yes nor no, and which discovered it could not.