When my grandmother could still reason ~ 90 my mother helped her make up a living will that said that she shouldn't be kept alive on tubes for more than some limited amount of time, like a few days, at her request.
Turns out that she lived to be 101 but by the time she turned 100 she just slept all the time, The nurses aid would wake her up to get her to drink Ensure from time to time to keep he alive.
Sad as her last 9 years were , at least she was able to avoid a nursing home. Those places are expensive hell usually paid by medicaid,
Thank you for sharing this.
What happened to “old people” prior to nursing homes? Did they just die younger?