[DoodleBob]

It's already here. It's called "comfort care."

Assume an uncle is sick, maybe being kept alive by a machine. Uncle Dan had a directive to not be kept alive by a machine or to be provided "curative" treatment if he's in an end-of-life stage.

The "caring" medical staff hands you a paper signaling that once removed from the machine, Uncle Dan will be put into "comfort care" where he'll be kept "comfortable" and no "curative" treatments will be provided. You think "ok...that's what Dan wanted."

You sign the paper, and Uncle Dan survives being decoupling. Ahhhh...but NOW you find out that Dan's hospital defines food and water as "curative" and he's now been put on a heavy morphine drip.

The "caring" medical staff tries to talk you into accepting that Uncle Dan's best days are behind him. If you complain, they wave the paper in your face.

There are vast swaths of medical pros who believe hastening the demise of a loved one is "compassion." They're not to be trusted.

[metmom]

Yes, there is a world of difference between feeding a person food and water and being kept alive by mechanical means.

It is slimy evil and deception to mislead someone like what you described.

The left is so obsessed with death and the medical community is no longer any better, but are complicit.

They will get their fill of death though, for all eternity. Hope they enjoy the fruit they reap from the seeds they have sown.

[waterhill]

Sis-in-law was a Skynyrd fan. “You Got That Right” was her theme song.

[ConservativeMind]

That’s how my great aunt was left to die, sadly.

It is horrible.

[null and void]

Yeah. Mom is on home hospice care. They will not provide any medications or treatment for her Alzheimer's, (we're buying the meds out of pocket), will provide meds for all other "normal" ailments for a nonagenarian, and a "comfort pack" of morphine "for pain" and lorazepam "for restlessness and agitation".

The RN who dropped off the "comfort pack" meds was sad and mopey and barely talked.

We administered them very sparingly, starting with the recommended dose of morphine and cutting it back to ¼ the indicated dose which sufficed to relieve pain without doping her up (which she hated).

When we reported this to the RN on her next weekly visit she immediately brightened and has ever since engaged in small talk at every visit.

Although we haven't directly asked, we are convinced that her typical experience is new patients 'quietly slip away' in an over medicated state within a week or two.