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Originally Posted by PugMom
you touched on 1 of the things about hospice i'm not comfortable with: the lack of care when an issue should arise. if you have a heart attack, etc., no care is given. they hold your hand while you die, ...please tell me i'm wrong
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If the patient in consultation with physicians or clergy or family or whatever combination has decided that they are now in a position where prolonging life is not the goal as it is only in fact prolonging a difficult death process... why in the world would you want that poor patient to be given CPR so they can awaken with tubes in their throats, new surgical wounds from their bypass all the new pain and disability when they were going to die within a short period anyway from their primary disease?
Ultimately everyone dies because their heart stops. The very goal of hospice is to make death as comfortable as possible. So hand holding and pain meds are the right treatment not the wrong one.