"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.
If you lay someone flat who has fluid, they'll drown. In the good old days, they would suction out the fluid, not lay the patient flat.
OMG, what have we become?