Anonymous wrote:When my dad went through hospice (at a hospice facility) I was horrified at the process as I didn't completely understand it at the time. I felt like he was OD'd on morphine, which he was, but I didn't understand the science of dying. I also thought they starved/dehydrated him to death, which they did, but again I didn't know that was part of the process of death.
OTOH, my mom did hospice at my sister's house and as I saw her dying every weekend I began to better understand the process and felt better about the way dad died. Like your family member, mom stopped eating about 3 weeks before death.
I could give more details, but just want to prepare you.
Hospice explained to us that given nutrition and fluids to a dying person actually hurts them. There is a reason people stop eating and drinking at the end. Their bodies are not working that way anymore. Especially fluids will prolong a persons life but not in a way they would want.
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