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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Then why not legalize medically assisted suicide?[/quote]

That’s a separate issue.  People can deny expensive and futile treatment, while still receiving comfort care (pain meds, fluids, oxygen). That is what hospice is. [/quote]

Actually, hospice tries to tell families that it is totally normal to stop giving nutrition and hydration to people.  I don't call that "comfortable."  There is a whole rationalization that is used to hasten death.[/quote]

The hospice industry is another big business can of worms: [url]https://www.propublica.org/article/hospice-healthcare-aseracare-medicare[/url][/quote]

Off topic but PLEASE don’t include scientific misinformation while discussing capitalism and big business.

I’ve seen too many people die a more uncomfortable death than needed because of this misunderstanding.

When someone is actively dying, it is in their best interest NOT to have hydration. Their vasculature cannot hold fluid in and it spreads to places it shouldn’t be (ie- lungs). Same goes for nutrition; bowels slow down. Bodies know how to die.

-hospital Oncology RN who has no interest in anything but patients’ comfort[/quote]

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