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Originally Posted by jhynesrockmtn
This was generally the conversation I had with my Mom's primary care doc a few months back. She's 82 and struggling with her memory. Enough that the place she lives is telling us she needs to get on the list for assisted living and/or possibly their memory care unit. We don't disagree.
He said "your mom is 82 because of medical interventions and advances in care that saved her from a heart attack she had in 2016 and with the drugs keeping her body going that were not available 30 years ago"
Drugs and various interventions keep people alive that would have died a more natural death previously. I question the value. Is their quality of life really better? I don't know, for some yes, increasingly for my Mom, no.
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My pops was a drooling zombie for 6 years. 2008-2014.
He had a pacemaker from a quad bypass in the early 2000's. Along with rhe medication he just couldn't go. Little sis just couldn't let him go. She was Daddy's Little Girl. Finally she realized she couldn't let it go on any longer. Doctors took him off all medication orher than those that kept him comfortable. He passed within a month.