In general, do not allow yourself to go to a nursing facility in a democratic state where the culture of death holds sway. In my training as a physician I have seen an elderly diabetic with a mind as sharp as a tack denied dialysis by a Catholic hospital (Washington state) and the oxygen turned off on an elderly man in respiratory distress. While it is likely that he would have died anyway, this was the equivalent of holding a pillow over his head.
We now have a national health care system that will put down millions of citizens annually who are deemed not worth saving.
I so agree with you.
And “Catholic” hospitals are not really Catholic anymore.
It is very appalling. the culture of death is defintely here.It was bad enough when just some families wanted their parents to die so they could get the house...but now it is the pervasive culture. a tragedy of values.
When my mother was admitted to the hospital in New Jersey, after having fallen on the steps. I received a call from the emergency room doctor telling me that my mother had had a brain stem stroke and was comatose. He wanted to remove the breathing tube and start her on an IV drip. I told him no, that she had a living will that stated that she wanted be kept alive for a certain period of time and that I was not going to allow anything to be done, or in this case, undone until I got there from across the country.
When I got to the ICU, I found that my mother was not unconscious, but drugged. She had bruises up and down both arms and was restrained. When I asked the nurses what it was all about, they said that she had been fighting them and trying to pull out the breathing tube. This is a woman that they said was practically brain dead.
It turned out that she didn’t have a stroke, that she had never had a stroke. The hospital said, oh well, she wouldn’t have died if they had put her on an I drip because she was breathing just fine on her own, and didn’t need the breathing tube. No wonder she was trying to pull it out.