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I didn't care to read the whole thing. I know how things are now. Nurses didn't used to be that way. They took care of everybody, no matter what, feeding them however they could until they were clinically dead, like in stone cold, naturally. Mercy killing, withdrawal of whatever support available at the time was not on the radar. There was no such thing as living wills.

I didn't mean to be flippant. Nurses are required to do things in most hospitals I couldn't do according to my conscience as in too many other professions today, so apart from the ones who don't seem to go about their duties robotlike, I don't care much what they say.

I have listened to what some local nurses are talking about. One nurse claimed that this didn't happen often in the nursing home she worked in, but it did happen sometimes.

I was getting signed up for surgery and the last nurse in the chain I had to deal with upset me so much I walked out of the hospital and never got the surgery. That was over 10 years ago. She almost didn't seem like a human being she sounded so cold and clinical.

The first thing they asked me when I went in there was, "Do you have a living will?" That really inspires confidence when you are already a little scared. I don't want to read what nurses write except a couple on this board who claim to be nurses and who still have a conscience.