[Vermont Lt]

You are displaying your ignorance of how hospice works. I suggest that you do more than “see them around.”

Hospice workers can keep someone alive just by giving them more attention and a little TLC. It’s not always a death sentence, and the hospice workers are the happiest folks when that happens.

[hinckley buzzard]

I have worked with hospice people and shared their patients for over twelve years. I know a little about "how they work." I have walked into the room of a hospice patient more than once and seen their "worker" at "work."

As for that, I have reported above the reactions of hospice patients themselves, whom I have known very well. Whether you know it or like it or not is irrelevant. Many of the people I have seen consider it a sign of the beginning of the end game, and they don't want to play. That's their reaction not mine. If that be ignorant I plead guilty.