[epow]

You've got a burr under your saddle about hospice. AFAIC, it's a wonderful alternative to dying in a hospital.

Maybe so, no one wants to die hooked up to a ventilator in an ICU. But is being slowly torured to death by forcible dehydration without the patient's permission a "wonderful alternative" to slipping away naturally or living peacefully with the aid of a simple feeding device? To some of us that's the real issue here, not the acknowledged value of hospice to people who are dying of natural causes.

[sinkspur]

To some of us that's the real issue here, not the acknowledged value of hospice to people who are dying of natural causes.

Then you're in the wrong conversation.