Posted on 12/01/2013 8:45:17 AM PST by Kaslin
And the heirs can inherit her stuff before it is all gone! Like money, stocks, bonds, houses, cars, jewelry!
Buy your own damned birth control. And stop forcing me to pay for other peoples kids.
Birth control is personal responsibility. I’m not paying for someone else’s condoms or birth control pills. But I do find great humor that the gay crowd has to pay for it also.
The whole obamacare scam must be repealed.
The fraud must be removed from the White House.
Glee Aikin? Really?
Now serving grape Flavoraid at a nursing home near you.
Scaled to a population of over 300,000,000, then 750,000 or 7.5 to 3,000 annually sounds like a normal or low death rate, not euthanazia.
I cared for my 89 year old mother when she was dying of congestive heart failure as the pig valve she received 10 years earlier began to fail. She was too frail for another surgery. I also cared for my husband who died of Alzheimers. The last 3 years were 24/7/365. Neither wanted to die in a hospital hooked up to IV and stomach tubes and they signed advanced directives years earlier when they were lucid. My mother knew she was dying and suffered from anxiety. My cousin, a doctor who knew and cared about my mother, suggested a mild tranquilizer which was a big help. When my husband finally collapsed and could not walk any more, the doctors who had seen him 3 months earlier sent me home hospice care (a nurse visited daily to check on him and give me advice). After a few days he did not want to eat. My son and I talked with the doctors. They said, feed him if he wants food, give water if he wants it. He did not, he died 5 days later at home in our bed. There is a time when dying is normal, we must learn to accept that and help the way the loved one wants us to. The Red Cross and others should offer classes on home care of the dying. Many want to die at home, but family do not feel able to do this—fear and ignorance.
I decided to check out the Liverpool Care Pathway. There are many links. Here is one about comparative testing, and an important comment.
Actually, dying people don’t feel thirst. The dying person follows their body cues just like a living one does. Their body is shutting down and doesn’t want food or fluid. Trying to force that into their body is cruel and causes them to become ill and vomit, and that usually ends up in their lungs. Fluids cause overload and create pain and breathing difficulties. There seems to be a lack of knowledge about the dying process. It is part of the life cycle. When your body is done so are you. We can keep you free of pain and other symptoms if you have them. But we can’t change the course you are on. The ethical solution is to maintain comfort only.
I never thought I’d see the day when the VA is the best deal going on health “insurance”.
You like paying for STDs?
If you’re too fucking stupid to understand the difference between Viagra and birth control, you’re probably a female.
The bottom line is that there are debilitation and preventable deaths in many instances over there with very little to balance it on the positive side (e.g. lower overall cost).
As per post 25, she is indeed a woman - a thourghly mixed up one at that.
And how many people who knew they were dying have begged YOU to care for them at home so they don’t end up dying in a hospital.
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