A hospice refused food and water to my terminally ill stepfather even though my mother was begging for them to give him food and liquids. When the nurse thought my mother was “sneaking” him water she screamed at my mother to stop. They lied to my mother and to my stepfather to get him in there, then everything changed.
Ny mother is ill now and she has made me promise no hospice, because she believes “they killed my husband”.
My mother says the same about my father, and she's right. Doctors and hospital staff committed errors and then lied and twisted their stories to cover up. Then they tried pushing him into hospice. We refused. He pleaded with them to treat him. We finally found doctors who would, but then another doctor interrupted his treatment with a narcotic he wasn't supposed to receive, and while he was suffering from that, a nurse overheard him telling me to give up on him. Right away, the so-called "ethics committee" was called in and tried to stop treatment altogether. Meanwhile, the hospice doctor was always waiting in the wings. We did manage to hold the hospice doctor off until my father's final hours.