Posted on 03/16/2009 1:30:51 PM PDT by wagglebee
Absolutely correct. Most, in fact, are not.
Yes. Me too.
So sorry.
When I was a trained hospice volunteer in OR a few years ago, they were adamantly opposed to doctor assisted suicide. They knew it was there but the hospice policy was not to promote it at all, just allow it if the patient insisted. I never heard (at that time, that I can remember) of any patient dying that way. I think that was right around the time the measure passed.
All the books I read about hospice were opposed to it as well. I can well imagine death promoters becoming volunteers or worse, paid employees, of hospices and changing their policies. Horrible. Like so much that is going on now.
I don’t want to be sustained by machines either - and I’d be willing to bet the majority of folks in hospice care have a DNR order.
We had hospice care in our home for my mother in law, a kind and generous woman who is still missed. They helped us ensure she could take every breath to which she was entitled in a comfortable and dignified manner, and she remained alert and in good spirits to the very end.
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