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Originally Posted by herr_oberst
^^^^Same thing happened to a kid I knew of in my hometown.
My dad has been in a nursing home for 5 years now. Stroke victim. Dying cell by cell. He stopped being able to recognize me a few months after mom died 2 years ago. No one should have to go through this - not just the patient, but the family.
The only beneficiary in a situation like this is the medical/insurance industry.
Death with dignity for me, please.
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Oh yes. The doctors and the nursing home all wanted to put a feeding tube to keep my father in law's heart and resperation going. He was long ago dead from Alzheimer's but they just saw a paycheck.
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