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To: twigs
They hasten death.

Not the ones I worked with. At the point we engaged Hospice care any further 'medical' care was absolutely futile. All those doctors would have done was prolong agony.

The timing of death is God’s domain, not ours.

And yet you want Doctors to do all they can to artificially prolong life. Remind me again who is screwing with God's domain?

41 posted on 10/12/2009 1:11:41 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Lurker

Indeed the people who made penicillin are guilty of blasphemy!


50 posted on 10/12/2009 1:20:43 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (ACORN: Absolute Criminal Organization of Reprobate Nuisances)
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To: Lurker

Totally agree with you. My grandmother passed away 2 months ago from Alzheimers. We knew she was going down fast so we called in Hospice. The last 2 weeks of her life she stopped eating completely. She could no longer swallow. Sure, we could have put in a feeding tube, but what kind of life would that have been for her? She’d still be laying up in a bed in a nursing home, basically unconscience. That’s no way to live.


57 posted on 10/12/2009 1:25:25 PM PDT by sistabrista
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To: Lurker

No, I don’t want to artificially prolong life at all beyond feeding and giving oxygen. The hospice people I’ve been aware of basically pull the plug (so to speak) or increase morphine to hasten death. Where death is imminent, I believe in making the person more comfortable. It has not been my observation that hospice workers restrain themselves from hastening death.


91 posted on 10/13/2009 6:46:34 AM PDT by twigs
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