Better to die at home in a clean bed, hydrated,fed, and surrounded by caring family.
I heartily agree. I hope I am not remiss in posing a few thoughts on the UK elderly.
As a child goggle eyed being taking through a busy London Street in the late 1930s, I saw a poor aged woman begging and she was so deteriorated, I must have made a childish remark. My mother said to me, " you should remember, that lady was once a young girl and happy". I have always remembered about persons like that- what was their very best day? What did they look like then?
At the risk of a ramble, I would like to narrate the example in old Victorian England, hopefully drawn from life. Thomas Hardy, the great novelist wrote about the County of Dorset. A character was old "Grandfer Cantle". He would be humoured by tavern patrons and would sing " a stave or two". Realizing he was being humoured, he remembered when he was 21 years old and in uniform in the "Bang up locals" (militia). He said " you should have seen me rushing down to Boney's point." In 1805 it was rumoured Napoleon had invaded. "You should have seen me" he said, "sword at my side". He got free beer.
Excuse the ramble, glad I am in small city Canada.
Oh please! Watch this old movie sent to me by another Freeper! I’m sure it will delight you!
This is a must see movie of a sharecropping family of the era.
The three Oscars nominated movie was made in 1945.
It is on youtube for Free.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbEpfj2d-zg&feature=mv_sr
Jean Renoir’s, The Southerner
I remember the Hardy book to which you refer, but have forgotten the title. I recall it was about the folk who lived in the moors and the title character had just returned from France.