"A friend of mine in north Florida says, based on conversations with friends, that many times the person from the local hospice (in a large city) will go in to visit the ill person, who soon thereafter seems very upset and (if I remember right) scared.
It sounds like the term "hospice" covers a very wide range of meanings. Part of that range seems to include ghouls like Felos who love death as some sort of mystical communion with dark forces."
I know a couple of nice people who volunteer for a hospice. I wonder if Hospices "train" (brainwash) volunteers to tell a dying patient to be "realistic," thereby taking away all of the patient's hope.
A couple of years ago, one of my loved ones was very sick, and the doctor was talking about possibly making "decisions," but our loved one is still with us, and while still ill, is TWICE as healthy.
Yes, I know a woman who volunteers for a hospice in Shreveport, LA. I was surprised that she did not seem overly upset over Terri's fate but did manage to say via email that she "could not" starve and dehydrate a loved one. But I thought that she would have been more emphatic about Terri's right to live. She is considered a very conservative person. Terri supporters have been surprised to learn that we are really a minority among Americans.