Sometimes Death is a mercy. Unlike many Freepers here,I’ve been in a nursing home for a short time. Believe me, what goes on at night when visitors atre not there will scare the Sh#t of of you....It opened my eyes...
Never again. Not for me and not for any of my loved ones....
My mother was “sundowning” in the hospital.....she would have gone mad completely in a nursing home. I brought her home and cared for her for over 2 years...she NEVER did that scary sundowning stuff with her family there. She never went back in a hospital at all. She died here in my home, with me at her side. She improved and went out of Hospice for a few years. It was several years later before she succumbed...and it was pretty fast when it happened. Hospice came back and got us through the ordeal. She was incontinent for the last year. I worked my butt off caring for her the way I believed she deserved. She took care of my dad for years and never complained. She deserved the same love and care and I did it myself.
If this family abandoned her, they better get with the game plan pretty quick. If not, the system is overstepping their boundaries. I don’t want death panels. I am not opposed to Hospice, but cutting off food and water is not acceptable. Not at all.
Sorry, this mini rant isn’t all that coherent, but it’s more revisiting a bad time than I can handle. I don’t wish to rewrite and clarify. My apologies.
This doesn't sound like a mercy death to me. This sounds like people deciding who is to live and who is to die based on what they believe to be the monetary worth of a human life. At this rate, euthanasia will become as widely defined and acceptable as abortion.
Are you talking about abuse by the staff?