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[quote=Anonymous]My grandmother was well over 100. Basically every year after 100 there was one more hobby she couldn’t do anymore and she was basically bored to death. She got a cold and announced she was going to die, doctor put her on hospice and she stopped taking her maintenance meds. Was gone in a week. (The hospice folks give you anti anxiety meds pretty freely so that speeds it up). My father died in his late 90s. His heart had been getting gradually weaker — he was just tired a lot and didn’t have stamina. Had a bad turn that may have started with eating something that didn’t agree with him and his heart started to decompensate quickly. The ER put him in hospice (they don’t want people dying in the hospital so they are really quick to hospice)—hospice gives a combo of haldol, Ativan and morphine (“ham”) on regular intervals with increasing dosage, so if you’re a sick old person that will basically slide you into oblivion pretty quickly. [/quote]
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