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In reply to the discussion: Sad and Confused...My friend shot his mother on Mother's Day [View all]Dementia , too ,has no reasonable chance of recovery .
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So sad and, you're right, this shouldn't happen in a wealthy country like this...
polichick
May 2012
#2
We do have euthanasia - it's called "hospice." At the least at-home version...
DesertDiamond
May 2012
#60
Oh, stop it. Hospice does not put people on morphine drips to cause their deaths!
sinkingfeeling
May 2012
#69
I misread it too. I believe he has been a friend of the OP for 15 years.
ScreamingMeemie
May 2012
#10
It happens in an uncivilized, immoral country, run by greedy zealots
ProfessionalLeftist
May 2012
#20
Oh my God, I am so sorry for your friend and his family. There was noone to help this poor man?
Ecumenist
May 2012
#26
Why don't people remember that they have to put on their own oxygen mask first?
WillowTree
May 2012
#27
After taking care of both my elderly parents (dad with Alzheimer's) until their deaths,
enough
May 2012
#29
It's exactly that inability to take action that prevents the dementia sufferer from doing what
enough
May 2012
#33
Here's how I view it--it's not a question of total time in the saddle, it's a question of Quality
MADem
May 2012
#63
I know what you mean. Pity someone didn't take him aside and give him the old pep talk.
MADem
May 2012
#95
When your "promise" puts the life of your loved one and the person providing care in danger, it's
MADem
May 2012
#94
You were insinuating that the man put his own interest in front of his mother's.
peace13
May 2012
#102
I was not insinuating anything, the word is "callous" and I wasn't that either, and you are
MADem
May 2012
#106
You did the right thing, and you know it in your heart. I agree, though, that guilt can make
MADem
May 2012
#109
Sorry this happened. I don't know how your friend stood it as long as he did. nt
raccoon
May 2012
#64