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To: metmom

I’m not so sure; if a person wishes to die at home that should be their right. When my Dad was dying, he really didn’t want doctors to intervene. In the end, it was probably my Mom’s inability to watch him dying that changed his mind. My grandfather, who is nearing the end of his journey, is adamant about wanting to die at home no matter what. I know him, love him, and know that it would be an absolute betrayal of his trust to take him out of his beloved house and property to die in a strange aseptic white room surrounded by strangers. If I were watching him in his last days, and he fell and told me he wanted to die there, what would I do? I think I’d respect his wishes. What business is it of the state’s?


16 posted on 03/06/2008 7:41:07 PM PST by LambSlave
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To: LambSlave

Thinking about it, I can see the points of not wanting to end up in a hospital being mistreated. Or murdered.

I don’t see what they can charge the daughter with. She took care of her mom, probably better than any facility would have.


19 posted on 03/07/2008 4:01:12 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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