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[quote=Anonymous]There’s a fine line between “palliative” care and “healing” care. If a given condition is causing pain, discomfort or distress, it should be ameliorated even if that can only be done at a hospital. There’s also a fine line between letting nature take its course and hurrying things along. Not everybody in the end of life business is as sensitive as they should be to those distinctions. Turning to your specific question, if your father in fact is eating nothing, his outside life expectancy might be a month, but as a PP pointed out it is likely to be less because he is already quite debilitated. If he stops hydrating the outside estimate shortens to about a week or so. Your father is lucky to have people who care about him. Don’t let anybody rush you or railroad him. [/quote]
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