Who needs “death panels.” People need to learn how to care for their loved ones at home, so they die with dignity when the time comes. My mother and husband didn’t want to die in a hospital, so I learned how to care for them at the end. My husband was Scots ancestry and financial opinions, and he was damned if some hospital was going to eat up all his hard earned life savings. Thankfully, he had VA plus Medicare.
Not everyone can be cared for at home.
In the article, one patient died following hip replacement surgery. Do you know how to do hip replacement surgery?
“Two Weeks” an EXCELLENT movie about a family dealing with this subject. Sally Field (ignore her politics) is fantastic in the role of the dying mother.
It deals with many uncomfortable subjects. Kleenex required.