Please, read this carefully!
I was NOT, and do NOT, advocate euthanasia. Alleviating the pain of a person who is in the process of dying is NOT euthanasia.
I deeply resent those who refuse to understand the difference between hastening death, and relieving the someone’s pain, when nothing can be done to prevent the death process.
Take this opportunity to understand the difference.
For your information, my husband had the best of care, including a several week long stay at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, to try to find a way to prolong his life.
As that song from the 80s goes, “There comes a time”.
I truly hope you will never suffer from a similar incurable illness.
I have been accused of not making sense, of being an advocate of euthanasia, and a worker of satan. That I am offended would be an understatement. You understand what others refuse to. I’m so sorry you had to go through this. Caregivers have a very special place in my heart. One more reason I love being a hospice nurse. To take care of the patients and to be a support to their families and caregivers. God bless you.
I think Comes a Time is from the 70’s.
As for this.
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I was NOT, and do NOT, advocate euthanasia. Alleviating the pain of a person who is in the process of dying is NOT euthanasia.
I deeply resent those who refuse to understand the difference between hastening death, and relieving the someone’s pain, when nothing can be done to prevent the death process.
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Alleviating pain does not cause death.
Withholding nutrients does. That is euthanasia.
If you are talking about the final hours or days when the body is shutting down and nutrients make no difference, then that is a different topic and not relevant.
Also, an incurable illness is quite different than age related neural degeneration, which what this topic was about.
I have noticed a lot of conflation on this thread. That causes problems of understanding on all sides.
We can only respond to what people write, not what is in their head.