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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry you are going through this. Do you mean it is clear that your aunt will not eat or drink on her own again?[/quote] Yes she has failed a swallow test and is not permitted liquids or food.[/quote] Let me get this straight: she failed a swallow test, so to prevent aspiration they want her to consume nothing by mouth, but it’s OK to starve/dehydrate her to death as long as they pump her full of narcotics. That’s not “death with dignity.” It’s active killing. And the idea that a person near the end of life should not get treatment for an infection (which has a palliative effect in addition to being potentially curative) borders on sadistic. Hospice used to be a good idea when it was in the nature of a social movement. Now it’s a business and a pretty macabre one at that. [/quote]
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