[reagan_fanatic]

Thank You for your insightful post.

My Father-in-Law just passed away recently from lung and prostate cancer. His last few days in the nursing home and hospital were terrible. You could tell, even in the advanced state he was in, that he was in a lot of pain. It was clear at that point that he would be dying soon. They did have him on morphine, but even that has its limits.

I think I would have preferred that they keep him in some kind of induced coma or something similar to keep him from suffering so.

[CholeraJoe]

My father passed away in October 2007 from a massive hemorrhagic stroke. As I watched him die over a 30 hour period, he demonstrated some vegetative signs suggestive of pain. Although I knew he couldn’t be in pain, my step-mother kept asking the nurses for him to have morphine for his pain. I just shrugged and let them give it.