Can you just picture miss Mae in her kitchen baking cookies and dispensing hugs? She looks like exactly who I would picture in my
Miss Mae is 'everybody's' mother. What almost happened to her can happen to every one of us. There I go again, speaking as if I lived in the US, which I don't, I am an Australian. It just can't happen here. From personal experience both as the widow of a medical practitioner and the admittance of aged relatives to a nursing home where the patients are cared for right until their last moments, all I can offer is the suggestion that the US must change its entire system of medical care. Starting with the paperwork, the very wording of 'Living Wills' which appear to be designed to deliberately confuse and result in nothing less than the death of the person who signs a document that they believe expresses their wishes, and literally sentence themselves to death by starvation.
From what I have gathered of the Terri Schiavo saga, and now the sad Miss May story, death has become an industry in the US and the legal system is complicit.
'Guardianship' has become a mockery of the term - it's no longer an instrument that guarntees the best interest of the 'guarded' - Guardianship appears to have become a fast-track toward inheritance.