9/3/2023, 7:07:09 PM · by Extremely Extreme Extremist · 53 replies
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Posted on 09/04/2023 10:05:03 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Too young...but excessive lifestyles tend to do that.
RIP Allstar...
I heard he had gone to hospice. I’m starting to realize it’s where they take people to make them comfortable while they die. It’s a tin line between how it actually works and assisted suicide. My mother and father both died in hospice in the last three years (both 90+). You’re basically waiting for them to die. My father only lasted a few days, but my mother lasted a few months. It felt kinda creepy in my mother’s case because nobody was doing anything to make her “better”. Rather, the goal was to just make her comfortable. But it was not really practical to make her “better”. She had do specific ailments. Her body was just done.
Before or after you know what? He was a heavy drinker with an extreme lifestyle BUT, the great equalizer probably had a hand in this untimely death.
Yes. In hospice your are required to not seek any treatment to survive. I’ve had some bad experiences.
I never heard anything about extreme lifestyles until he was sick.
Just be sure that anyone put into hospice, including yourself, should really be there.
You know what, from what I heard he was a big alcoholic, but that being said, I should know better and get more info before taking the press’ word for it.
It is assisted suicide for all intents and purposes.
One of my favorite memories with my kids was watching “Shrek” and singing along to “All Star” with them.
Yeah. Something similar happened to my grandmother, though it wasn’t hospice. She was in a nursing home after a pretty much debilitating stroke in her 50’s. She was there for about 20 years, constantly mentally deteriorating.
Then a funny thing happened...
She went to a different nursing home and they took her off almost all of her meds and suddenly we had her back, at least mentally. The doctor who was in charge of her medication in the first home lost his license to prescribe drugs. Coincidentally, he was also the doctor that delivered me in 1954.
RIP.
The patient aside, hospice is often a gut-wrenching experience for close family members. The doctor acknowledges that a course of treatment is available. It would prolong life for a few days or weeks. But such a treatment also would prolong the pain and suffering. What to do?
I was faced with such a decision regarding a family member who was in a coma. Fortunately, I had great support and advice from a pastor. I would hope others in similar situations would be so lucky.
Perhaps his six-year-old son dying of leukemia back in 2001 played a role in that.
Tragic, all around.
I heard about that, truly sad. I think he was six months old though.
Wow.
During a performance with Smash Mouth in Urbana, Illinois, on August 27, 2016, Harwell collapsed on stage and was taken by ambulance to a hospital. The band completed the concert without him, with De Lisle taking over on vocals.[7]
In October 2021, the band performed at a beer and wine festival at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, New York, where Harwell appeared to be intoxicated, threatening audience members and performing what looked like a Nazi salute.[8][9] Following the performance, Harwell announced his retirement due to ongoing health issues.[10][11]
Harwell had struggled with alcoholism.[14] In 2013, Harwell was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy and Wernicke encephalopathy after years of alcoholism, which can affect motor functions such as speech and memory and cause heart failure. Harwell implied he retired because these problems hindered his ability to perform well.[15]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Harwell#Illness_and_death
Yes, you're right. That has to affect a man in ways I can't even imagine.
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