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That's how my grandfather went, at the end of years of steadily worsening Alzheimer's. We kept suggesting to my parents that they suggest to the staff that he w
by utexaspunk 10y ago
That's how my grandfather went, at the end of years of steadily worsening Alzheimer's. We kept suggesting to my parents that they suggest to the staff that he was "in pain", but they wouldn't. It took him over 2 weeks to die. It was a terrible thing to watch, and seemed completely pointless- you've already decided that he's going to die, why prolong it? Somehow doing something to "help him along" is killing him, but withholding food and water is not. :(
- ChrisDutrow 10y ago>Somehow doing something to "help him along" is killing him, but withholding food and water is not. :( I am also confused by this. If a person is unable to feed themselves, and you are responsible for caring for them, it is murder to not give them food and water. Imagine if doctors did this on purpose to a patient who was not terminal. I don't see the difference between starving someone to death and giving them a morphine overdose except that one is very nasty and one is not.