[schmelvin]

IMO hospice care is no better than taking a lost dog to the Pound. (But in a Pound, if a new owner is found, at least the animal is allowed to be released!)

Wow! You really hit the nail on the head with that one.

[Fred Nerks]

It's the existence of hospice 'care' that allows this situation to exist. Without the hospice, people in need of care are either in hospital, in a nursing home, or cared for by their family.
The euthenasia lobby wouldn't get very far in a hospital, would they? Can you imagine a family member telling a doctor in a hospital, 'listen, I think it's time for grandma to go to Jesus'?
I can't. I'm the widow of a physician & surgeon. I accompanied him on numerous visits to elderly patients in nursing homes where the patients were treated and nursed, given therapy, wheeled into the sunshine, NOT STARVED and DEHYDRATED!.