[spectre]

It costs upwards of $80,000 a year for my Dad's care...for 12 years and counting. And that's not counting what Depends cost :~( Not one single dime is paid by medicare. ZERO!

If he didn't have the money, he would share a urine stenched room with another person on assistance, and probably just lay there.

Some people think the Gov't will take care of them, no matter what. They never stop to think what the quality of care will be if they don't have the money to pay their own way. It's not pretty.

sw

[justshutupandtakeit]

No it is not pretty. In fact, for many it is sheer horror.
It seems as though those who have actually experienced episodes like this are much less sure this was a "murder" and more a hopeless situation. My experience was losing my wife when she was 43 to cancer. I know without a doubt she would despise anyone trying to do to her what was done with TS for all those years.

I love her far to much to adopt the path of the Schindlers and drag out her death one hour too long. But to many here I'm a heartless lover of death.

[yellowdoghunter]

Those people in those "urine stenched rooms, as you put it" have just as much value as your Dad.

If one goes into a nursing home and finds that condition, they need to report it. It is usually taken care of, at least here in Oklahoma.

I work to fight for laws that require better nursing care and do things along those lines. Many people do not have the money to take care of someone in that state, as a society, we have a moral obligation to take care of those individuals.