so who permitted all these procedures on your FIL?...
you can't force care on someone if they are of sound mind or their poa refuses it....
it is sad...
I'm sad my mother had to die a slow death....I wish we had pushed her to get chemo and all that ...but it was her choice...
even though I am totally against prolonging life just because you can, there is also something called giving "hope" to the very ill....
Actually, he was not ready to go and wanted every procedure possible.
It was his call but he suffered a great deal as a result.
I have no idea what I will want if I end up where he was but right now for me, it does not seem right.
I’m sad my mother had to die a slow death....I wish we had pushed her to get chemo and all that ...but it was her choice...
even though I am totally against prolonging life just because you can, there is also something called giving “hope” to the very ill....
...I was in the same situation with my mother, who had ovarian cancer that did not respond to carboplaten treatments, and her alternative was a more lethal cocktail of chemotherapy that scared the crap out of her...both she and I believed the cocktail would have done nothing for her, and she chose to face her fate on her own terms, though that made for a very tough month and a half at the end...she was a few days short of 83 when she died, and she’d had enough...
...it is of course sad, that a decision like this has to be made, to waste away with terminal illness or poison yourself in hopes of poisoning the disease, but, that’s what we’ve got...