**The right-to-die fairy tale is one of the tools that health care counselors can use. A family member who might tend to lean on traditional values and reject the right-to-die rhetoric as new-fangled can be told that he has it all backwards, that giving up on Grandpa's life was traditional and trying to prolong life is new-fangled.**
The thought that the truth could be reversed here is truly frightening.
**If we don't believe that the removal of life-saving interventions would restore the allegedly peaceful and predictable deaths of yesteryear, how can we explain the fact that many families come away from hospice feeling that their loved ones faded gently away in a very natural process?**
Good question!
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I guess we think alike on this issue. One of the lessons learned with regard to the Terri Schiavo case was that I will never put a loved one in a hospice.