MTMattie
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It is of no matter. I too dont read all. LOL
Medical euthanasia?
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TOTHALORDBEALLGLORY
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TO the trenches mattie . And let all that has breath praise n thank the glorious LORD .
Onwards in the glorious Lord .
MTMattie
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Yes, I undersatnd. But they do have medicines that can handle the pain and also keep those fairly asleep until it is their appointed time.
Medicating to comfort is not the same as termination.
it would have been wrong of me to try and find someone who would have taken my mother out of life permanently, even though she was in great pain and her mind so totally shot at the end.
When she was in the rehab place and I knew she would not be coming home, daily I prayed for God to take her, yet he did not.
Then when she got into the other place I just kept saying "keep her comfortable".
My conscience is clear.
Dizerner
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I don't think you did anything wrong.
Richard
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That's the real problem as I see it. First it's voluntary euthanasia then it's mandatory. Like if you become a burden on the state.
David Koberstein
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I went through a similar situation with my late father. He had Parkinsons, which made swallowing difficult for him. The doctor recommended a feeding tube. My father declined and the doctor signed off and sent him to hospice where he passed away a week later. I believe the issue for my father was quality of life. My wife stayed with him the entire time in hospice where she played my fathers favorite hymns on her laptop an read Scripture to him.
Shalom
MTMattie
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You mean when the money runs out? Happened to a friend of my grandmother's back in the 80s. They were in a nursing home together and Mary had run low on money, so they moved her out of Grandma's room to another location in the building and then a couple weeks later we were told she had died.
Then one day, by pure accident , my mom was a few days late mailing grandma's payment and she passed in the not to distant future.
civic
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I work in assisted living/memory care and I've seen lots of patients/residents on hospice care receive morphine which accelerates their death and relieves their pain.
I saw this happen first hand with my mother at home where on Friday morning I had coffee with her and she was talking with me and able to walk to the bathroom. Later that night my sister had been with the hospice nurse and they decided for her pain in her knee to start giving her morphine. By the morning she was unconscious when I came over to visit and the next morning passed away. Needles to say I was very upset.
I saw this happen first hand with my mother at home where on Friday morning I had coffee with her and she was talking with me and able to walk to the bathroom. Later that night my sister had been with the hospice nurse and they decided for her pain in her knee to start giving her morphine. By the morning she was unconscious when I came over to visit and the next morning passed away. Needles to say I was very upset.
MTMattie
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I thought about that and mine.I work in assisted living/memory care and I've seen lots of patients/residents on hospice care receive morphine which accelerates their death and relieves their pain.
I saw this happen first hand with my mother at home where on Friday morning I had coffee with her and she was talking with me and able to walk to the bathroom. Later that night my sister had been with the hospice nurse and they decided for her pain in her knee to start giving her morphine. By the morning she was unconscious when I came over to visit and the next morning passed away. Needles to say I was very upset.
I would not have sanctioned an euthenasia situation, but the way my mom was.. which was her brain was fairly shot.... if the pain killers hurried things I cannot feel bad.
The first night in the memory care I got a call from the nurse about 11PM and she said mom was ok, but they had put her to bed... Her bed was one of those that lowers lower to the floor with the pads around in case she would fall out of bed... and she had managed to roll out of bed and she was in the hallway crawling on her hands and knees... (With a broken femur)
Back in the rehab place she had to be kept out by the nurses station in either a recliner that she kept trying to get out of unless the propped the foot area higher and made it not movable. One day I got a 6AM call... she was alright but they had her in her wheel chair and she got up and fell into the cabinet the TV was on. It was a horrible cut and bruise for days and if she had been about an inch off she would have put her own eye out.
She had to be sedated and she had to be on painkillers.
She would never have been able to be OK...
So, I dont really know what happened, but I can assure you I feel it was for the best.
LOL... funny though. As I was waiting for the death certificates to arrive I got a phone call about 10 days after the funeral and he wanted to know
about the cracked femur that was noted on the copy he was sent.
I had to explain about her falling yada yada.. and then he said he had to redo them because the memory care folks did not emphasize that
and so he did. But I wondered at the time if he thought there might have been funny business?
