[spectre]

People with terminal cancer fight for their lives, but if the time comes that the fight is futile, all that person and their family are concerned with is pain management and slipping peacefully away.

Thank God for Hospice.

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[Cboldt]

People with terminal cancer fight for their lives, but if the time comes that the fight is futile, all that person and their family are concerned with is pain management and slipping peacefully away.

Thank God for Hospice.

I'm more cynical toward hospice now than I was after my contact with hospice 10 years ago. Way more cynical. Toward the legislative and judicial systems too, but that's another story.

Terminal cancer patients' expressions don't apply to a patient who has no disease, or to a severely disabled person (e.g. Altzheimer's), or a clinically depressed person. But it is interesting that people facing death and in serious pain change their mind to (and from) "I want to live!" during the course of a day. It makes intuitive sense, to hang on to one's own life. Not that everybody does, obviously, see suicide.