“And Hospice is well known of ODing patients to get rid of them faster.”
Exactly what hospice did to my Dad. People are fooling themselves if they think euthanasia isn’t being practiced in this country.
How dare you say that hospice gives opiates to EUTHANIZE??????
You people who feel that way must have been the people who did surgeries on helpless babies without anesthetics because people that young were not supposed to feel pain??????
Sorry, my dad died this year and this makes me a bit ragey. This is what occurs when you die. When you are elderly (and in dads case advanced Alzheimers to where everything is shutting down) and can no longer take food or even water, it is dying time. We love our precious elders so much, we know they are leaving, and we want them to leave in comfort rather than agony.
AS THE ORGANS BECOME DEPRIVED OF WATER, THE PAIN IS IMMENSE. Two days before my dad died he was unable to eat or drink for the first time. He was clearly dying, which was the right time for him to go, he had lost all normal functioning. So you don’t incubate for for food or IV for water. You don’t prolong his suffering. So of course these people become dehydrated. For the first time in 7 years of Alzheimer’s, my dad cried out in pain from his organs dehydrating. SO THEY GAVE HIM THE MORPHINE. I am glad they did. When he passed the next day he was peaceful.
You purists would rather have seen him go out groaning in agony. Please do not accuse hospice of euthenasia. They knew my dad was shutting down and dying, which he was. Morphine is wonderful when you are in agony. It doesn’t remove you from this earth. The last time I was given morphine, I watched all the morning chat shows on it and STILL thought they were insipid. It calms a still living body’s pain. It can help someone dying of pneumonia to breathe less scarily, to choke a little less on their way to the next world.