I had a family member who’s upper brain functions were gone due to a stroke, but the hospital staff “weaned” them off the machines that were keeping them alive.
As a result, even though this person had absolutely NO response to stimulus (no response to removing the tracheal intubation, no response to sharp poking, nothing), the body lived on for roughly 10 days.
This person was given an IV drip of nutrients and hydration, but that’s it. We had to fight for that - the hospital didn’t want to give them ANYTHING - and this was AFTER they “weened” them off the machines keeping them alive.
In my opinion, this “weening” denied this family member a faster, more humane, natural death.
I was right in the middle of all this, and it wasn’t fun at all. It showed me first-hand how in the modern medical system, death can be more of a drawn-out process than an event.
I’m sorry you all had to go through that terrible ordeal.
They can charge you all during the weening process. Hospital incompetence killed my father and my younger brother. A hospital is generally the place you go to die, but not before they try to bill you into financial ruin.