Not by federally mandated end-of-life "consultations". The idea is to persuade an old person to refuse treatment and die so that the cost savings can be given to younger people under the age of 40. That includes illegal aliens.
How do we give this information to our loved ones? By talking to your doctor and nurses, and then talking things over with your family and loved ones. My mother died this year after 5 years of illness. Nobody pressured her. We told her what the options were. She made her own decision.
She did not want to die. She took the treatments that were available to her. Her life was prolonged by five years. I am very glad it was. We had 5 more years to spend with her before she died.
I do not want federally mandated end-of-life "consultations". It think death panel is a more appropriate term. The term cuts through all the platitudes.
Persuade and old person to...die so that the cost savings can be given to younger people under the age of 40.
My mother and my husband did not want to linger miserably in a hospital while bills decimated the nest egg they had worked for most of their life and that they wanted to leave to their loved ones. My mother had her mitral valve replaced with a pig valve when she was 78. Nine years later it started to fail. In consultation with her doctor it was decided she was too frail to withstand another valve surgery.
I cared for her a week after she came home from the first operation after 3 weeks in the hospital and a rehabilitation facility. It was horrible; she had been cut from throat to just above her naval, her ribs spread apart. She was still very week, and the stitches had only been recently removed. She knew another surgery was unrealistic, but we had several months together to talk, read, and share her memories of her early life. She died at age 89.