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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would also get a hospice evaluation and consider comfort eating only depending on what they say. Not wanting to end is usually the body saying it is time to go. I wish our culture respected this more. Doctors seem to always want to intervene in ways that aren’t always helpful to your loved one.[/quote]

What does this mean? The hospice helps them to die because they only eat what they want to eat when they want? Does the hospice administer medication or anything like that? I'm trying to ask this in a nice way not an accusing way. I think it's ridiculous to force feed elders who just want to be left alone to die. [/quote]

I’m not an expert. But in my FIL’s case, this looked like giving him small sips of water or ice chips when he was thirsty (he wouldn’t take more than this). And if he said he wanted to eat, they gave him some bites of yogurt which he quickly didn’t want much of. Nobody was cutting up a chicken breast or trying to get a whole bowl of soup in him.

On hospice, you basically decline medical treatment but you get things like pain meds. They let the body take its natural course towards death. At least that is how I think about it as a non-expert.[/quote]

Thank you[/quote]

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