If I become incontinent, my mind is blown with alzheimers, my body filled with bed sores,, gasping for breath, I want my family to spend every dime they have to keep me alive so I can suffer. I don’ want any of them to get a penny’s inheritance, I want it all spent with the nursing home keeping me alive in a vegetative state.I ant my two daughters to have to come and watch me waste away in pain from terminal cancer or whatever else I have, just feed me, If I cannot eat, dose me up with that liquid crap they put in my veins that keeps me alive so my kids can take time away from their families to watch me die after eating for a long time.If I am totally useless, have no mind, have no chance of recovery, just keep feeding me until they go broke , the government goes broke, and then bury me with the $200 dollars Social security gives for the purpose.
Yeah thats the way I want to go, lying there with my family grieving for me every day and saying what a sad case I am waiting to die.
It costs less than $2000 a month to feed someone with an IV and give them ice chips. The average elderly person gets more than this from Social Security.
Are you planning to try out for one of Zero's death panel commercials?
LOL add that $2,000 to the $5,000 you are already paying at the nursing home and it adds up.
I believe the decision should be left to the family and their decision should not be questioned by people who disagree.
I watched my mother in law with Alzhaeimers she wasted away slowly dying in increments ,slowly getting to the point where she could not eat and passing into unconsciousness, she could have lasted a few days longer had they fed her throught tubes. For what? Why put her throught that?
No )(I am dead set against Obamacare and letting the Government let me dies for lack of medical attention they refuse to pay for, but when my time comes do not make special efforts to keep me around. When I cannot eat through my own mouth and cannot wipe my own butt, I will be ready to go. I do not want to lie around like a veggie.
My family has better thing to do than coming to visit a veggie at the nursing home every day. I might add that if you have a loved one in the nursing home VISIT them EVERY day or the care they get will not be the best. I know that from bitter experience.