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Zef, so very sorry.

My mom died last August, 2 months short of her 93rd birthday. She did not want to be put on life support if it ever came to that, so she signed papers to that effect which were filed with her doctors and the medical facility at her home.

Posted on the inside of her apartment door at her assisted living complex was a "Do Not Revive" form lest pramedics put her on oxygen or whatever and rush her to the hospital, should the nurse at her home somehow not tell them not to. Apparently, once put on life support it is more difficult to have the patient taken off, even if the proper papers were previously filed.

Two days after returning from a two day hospital visit where the hospitalist told me that nothing could be done for her but put her on life support, she passed away at 9:30 in the morning, peacefully in her sleep, in her own bed, with a hospice saint watching over her.

This was in CA. I don't know if other states operate the same.

God bless hospice nurses.