[floriduh voter]

I think some hospices are taking people who ARE NOT TERMINAL, who need help but are speaking and eating. After after about a week, suddenly, they are failing and incoherent. Relatives in the past mistakenly believed their family member went fast even though they looked good the week or two earlier. I heard the horror stories outside of the Vigil. People escaped hospices with their loved ones because the hospices were intent on going through with starvation/dehydration and didn't even want to give up the patients to their family members!

They are not helping terminal patients with end of life care. They are causing deaths. (the bad ones like Terri's).

[pickyourpoison]

"ARE NOT TERMINAL"

My friend who died at hospice wasn't terminal. He had lung cancer and had surgery at Mofitt Cancer Center and was pronounced cancer free. He was still having some breathing problems, and was coughing up a lot of stuff after the surgery. He slept propped up because of the coughing. He couldn't spit the stuff out when he was laying flat of his back.
He had problems in the middle of the night, his wife called the doctor. The doctor said to take him to the hospice because it was less that 2 miles away. They lived about 60 miles from Mofitt. The doctor called the hospice and asked the nurses to make him comfy. Well, they did...they layed him flat of his back, gave him some oxygen, and a morphine drip and he died.
His wife believes he would be alive today if they had taken him somewhere else.