Check out the links on the thread. Here is a chance to actually get involved, to say what needs to be said.
End-of-Life forum to be presented at SPC Seminole Campus
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I have been caring for an elderly step-parent for over a year (90 yrs old-severe dementia).
He has ALL of the risk factors except the 'bedridden' one.
He has presented all of the other risk factors for someone with six months or less to live for OVER three years.
His continance is sporadic, he has lost weight-eating most of his breakfast/lunch combo but almost none of his supper-maybe a small bowl of jello, but always his beloved ice cream bar before bed.
He is nuts...sometimes telling me to get the hell out (especially the daily battle over putting 'depends' on) and thanking me generously for putting on his socks and shoes.
He had shunt surgery last year...to help with balance issues (he was falling a lot, relieving the water buildup (actually spinal fluid) between the top of his brain and his skull with the shunt has helped him...but he still needs a walker as he is an accident waiting to happen most days.
He LOVES his chair, his view of a stream, the ducks, the trees, his newspaper...that he gets to read all day long because as soon as he reads a headline he forgets it...so it is always new!
Whatever.
I guess if he were to be put in a hospice, he would be killed? Or is the fact that he is not bedridden (tho he sleeps around 14-15 hours a night, give or take) his saving grace.
HOW I WISH I COULD GO TO THIS END-OF-LIFE forum................I WOULD BE RAISING HELL. Believe it.
To tell you the truth, I have a gut feeling about that area...there is something vile there, imo. It seems to be full of dangerous, unethical, vile people who believe they have the right to determine who gets to live and who has to die.
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/topstories/news-article.aspx?storyid=47434
Exclusive: Jacksonville To Cremate The Indigent
"It's very upsetting," says Jarrell, who volunteers at nursing homes and hospices around the city. She's trying to raise funds to pay for the burial of one elderly patient who is terminal, and does not want to be cremated when she passes away.
"I want to honor this person's wishes, and that's that they be buried, not cremated," Jarrell said.
Wiles, who says the city expects to handle 182 indigent burials for this fiscal year, estimates the taxpayers are being saved $145,000 by the switch to cremation - 33% of the city's budget for indigent burial.
She adds, Jacksonville officials decided to make the switch on the heels of Dade and Pinellas Counties, two other Florida counties that have also begun cremating indigent residents in recent years to save money.
Apparently, these true geniuses were going to cut me some slack but the fact that I posted that Jeb told the German media he was considering running for president drove them wild.
I noticed that Drudge took down the link to that story quickly but it's above in one of my posts. Jeb will never have my vote, if he wants to work at FEMA, he can do that. He can pass out water to people to make up for the water Terri never got.