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To: wagglebee

The first thing I would do is stay away from hospices, although there are pro-life hospices, if you can find one.


9 posted on 11/04/2007 11:35:55 AM PST by Sun (Duncan Hunter: pro-God/life/borders, understands Red China threat, NRA A+rating! www.gohunter08.com)
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To: Sun

Hospices are generally wonderful places, that assist both families and patients in the months preceeding death. All people in hospice are dying. It is a requirement to go there. Why do you say to stay away?


13 posted on 11/04/2007 12:08:56 PM PST by ga medic
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To: Sun

Whaaaat??? Hospice is about dying with dignity and being in familiar surroundings, with family doing the care. They aren’t about euthanasia but neither are they about prolonging life in terminal and painful circumstances. Before hospices, people had no choice, they spent their last days in busy hospitals, with machines blipping and beeping, visiting hours regulated and overworked staff that couldn’t be there every minute just to offer comfort. Now you have a choice to spend your last days as comfortable as humanly possible, at home. More like what people used to actually do as they were dying, only with more comfort measures than before.

Hospices are a wonderful development in the healthcare field, run by dedicated and generous-spirited people. Why would anyone be against that?


25 posted on 11/04/2007 5:25:31 PM PST by ktscarlett66 (Face it girls....I'm older and I have more insurance....)
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