Just so you know, my experience was so very different than yours. Please see my post above.
Hospice is used when all else fails, and “modern medicine” can’t stop the unrelenting devastation caused by some illnesses, and can’t relieve the pain and destruction caused by the same.
Please know that no-one from any funeral home came to talk with me. My husband and I decided on our own, to donate his brain to Harvard for research into these brain destructive illnesses, and his body to a local medical school for students to study.
No-one made a profit, and my beloved husband now is no longer suffering from a horrible disease that made the last decade of his life completely miserable.
Please do not generalize from your personal experience and opinion to all of us. You do not understand that some of us are dealing with intractable illnesses that modern medicine cannot alleviate or cure.
If no one made a profit how do they stay in business? Profit is not evil, it’s necessary and it’s good.
My husband died from brain cancer but he didn’t die struggling for breath at the hospice death house.
Doctors tend to think a patient might as well go to hospice and die if there is nothing else they can do. The spouse or family member in charge should not hesitate to question the doctor’s “advice”. Find out all the possible placements besides hospice. There is a hospital like “Solara” which is a placement for the vitally ill. My husband rallied from that first time the doctor wanted to write him off, and he was in a rehab. hospital during that time, not hospice. Near the end, he was in our local hospital under the care of our family doctor who knew him well.
Do due diligence, and don’t accept what just one doctor says who can’t do anything else for him - that one doctor was wrong to suggest hospice so I researched and went another way. There are options beside hospice is what I am saying.
This is my final post on this.