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Originally Posted by Commander Wallace
Generally, in Hospice, the patient can be completely sedated and as Platapus said, pass away from organ failure and dehydration. Or, the Hospice patient can be slightly sedated so they can receive guests and communicate with friends, family and Hospice personnel. Either way, It's a rough road for the family and patient. It always will be because if the family had their way, The Hospice patient would throw off their covers, easily get up, do cartwheels down the hall and be like they were 20 years earlier. Anything short of that isn't acceptable. In short, we don't want to lose our loved ones.
I just lost a friend of the family in Hospice a few weeks ago. It's hard to see someone you care about in that condition that had once been so vibrant. She did a lot in her Community. It's never easy to lose someone and never will be.
Condolences To Platapus and August and everyone else going through difficult circumstances like these or have experienced it.
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The problem also lies in the commercialisation of health care. When the mother of my father died, it was clear where her road ahead would lead her when she was in hospital, and everybody knew she would never leave it again. Still, they ran an awful lot of procedures and diagnostics on her, many of them making her suffer more than was inevitable anyway due to her health status - not because they could get info from these to change her fate for the better, but because it generated income for the hospital. They milked coins out of her until she was dead. Not metaphorically spoken - but literally. My uncle was the one being in place and deciding - and he just did not know enough about all this, trusted them doctors.
When you make health care an investment option for shareholders and profits must be created to pay out these shareholders - guess who looses. The money gets taken form somewhere, it does not rain down from heaven. Somebody's gotta pay the bill. When years ago I still held stocks, I carefully had excluded health care providers and insurers.