[goat granny]

One of the first things your taught in nursing school is the hearing is the last sense to go, so don't say anything when taking care of a comatose patient that could be detrimental to them....

Something for all to remember when visiting a patient in the hospital that may be in a coma...I took care of little 7 year old dying of brain cancer and as I talked to him while taking care of him, I swear he smiled at me...When I told his mother she said he smiles at her when she holds and rocks him...but he never came out of the coma. Died several weeks later......REMEMBER THIS WHEN VISITING PATIENTS....

[Ditter]

Thank you for that tip. I WILL remember.

[ErnBatavia]

As my mom was dying earlier this year, she wasn't in a coma, but spent much of the time in a pretty deep sleep (pneumonia, congestive heart stuff).....the nurses - all of 'em - would remind us that she was probably "hearing" us as we'd discuss her condition.

It really did comfort us a bit as we were saying our farewells.

[BykrBayb]

Kind of makes you wonder how anyone could advocate starving and dehydrating someone like that to death, doesn’t it? How does someone make the leap from caring for someone to killing them? That takes a special kind of evil.