[basil]

Coming soon to a hospital near you.

I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that dehydration is a painful thing—very painful.....

[Doe Eyes]

Coming soon to a hospital near you.

If you don't have money or insurance, you should die. Who is willing to pay for the deadbeats?

[faithhopecharity]

Why in hell did the Brits try to defend themselves in WW2?
The Nazis would have provided the same standard of “medical care” for them....

[Brian Kopp DPM]

When my mother-in-law was dying of cancer last summer, a nurse with the local hospice thrust a sheet of paper into my wife's hands with the following text (because we insisted on continuing a simply IV for comfort measures, as my mother-in-law was frequently complaining of thirst in her last two weeks of life and had lost the ability to swallow):

Changing Pattern of Feeding and Hydration Needs in Terminal Care

[snip]

Dehydration is nature at work and can bring relief from distressing symptoms such as
Hiccough
Abdominal Bloating
Vomiting from increased stomach secretions
Pressure from the tumor causing pain
Shortness of breath
Lung congestion
Rattling secretions
Impaired consciousness

There are certain circumstances where some of these statements may be true, but to use this across the board to discourage or refuse simple IV hydration among all cancer patients is wrong.

I won't even go into the details of the battle we had to fight just to get her the IV in the first place.