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salin

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Sat Sep-24-05 11:28 AM
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15. Hospice was great

for my father. He spent little time in the end at the hospital. When my mother needed more assistance as my father's illness futher incapicitated him, they provided it such that she could tend to him and he could live out his life in his "dream home" that they had built together and that brought him such peace.

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-Why do we fight the natural process of death?	bleedingheart	Sep-24-05 10:54 AM	#0
- I agree with you.	bushwentawol	Sep-24-05 11:02 AM	#1
- it costs $6500 a month to keep her in the facility	bleedingheart	Sep-24-05 11:04 AM	#2
- I see so many procedures given to patients like her	bushwentawol	Sep-24-05 11:18 AM	#7
- if someone would have told her 10 years ago that this is what would happen	bleedingheart	Sep-24-05 11:20 AM	#8
- fuck the money- that should NEVER be a	Bluerthanblue	Sep-24-05 12:40 PM	#22
- Presumptions	Az	Sep-24-05 11:10 AM	#3
- sadly there is no hope in this situation only despair and a state of	bleedingheart	Sep-24-05 11:23 AM	#9
- That was a great reply, and sometimes we succeed in bringing	bonito	Sep-24-05 11:25 AM	#12
- Family getting very close to the doctors and nurses in charge is the only	DemExpat	Sep-24-05 11:13 AM	#4
- i know what you say about the ER visits	bleedingheart	Sep-24-05 11:18 AM	#6
- Years ago I signed a living will for each of my parents	salin	Sep-24-05 11:17 AM	#5
- The hardest thing I have ever done in this life was deciding	DemExpat	Sep-24-05 11:26 AM	#13
- Hospice was great	salin	Sep-24-05 11:28 AM	#15
- Because our tendency is to be AFRAID of what we can't control	Shine	Sep-24-05 11:23 AM	#10
- my father-in-law who is 84 just told us that he is ready	bleedingheart	Sep-24-05 11:28 AM	#14
- beautiful Mystery... so well stated Shine....we fear childbirth too..	Bluerthanblue	Sep-24-05 01:01 PM	#23
- Hospice	etherealtruth	Sep-24-05 11:25 AM	#11
- I am going to ask them if the have the option to start with Hospice	bleedingheart	Sep-24-05 11:36 AM	#17
- If there is not a hospice available ...	etherealtruth	Sep-24-05 11:42 AM	#19
- My friend asked the doctor to "make his mom comfortable"	goclark	Sep-24-05 11:48 AM	#20
- I guess some doctors just can't grasp the idea that starving IS	Kingshakabobo	Sep-24-05 11:31 AM	#16
- That is a wonderful question to be asking.	shance	Sep-24-05 11:36 AM	#18
- Just hope he does not succumb to the pressure and get a feeding tube.	TNDemo	Sep-24-05 11:51 AM	#21
- This question raises another important issue about how	Shine	Sep-24-05 01:10 PM	#24

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