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There is good reason to not want to be in the system. During COVID, both my aunt and grandmother were abused during their hospitalizations (not for COVID). The
by iammisc 5y ago
There is good reason to not want to be in the system. During COVID, both my aunt and grandmother were abused during their hospitalizations (not for COVID). The experience left my aunt feeling she'd rather have died than endure what she had to, and after hearing her experiences, I think that would have been a perfectly rational decision to make had she known what was going to happen.
Why are we so upset when people decide to refuse treatment?
- bduerst 5y ago>Why are we so upset when people decide to refuse treatment? The anecdotal evidence you gave (hospital abuse) is an outlier, not a norm. A better question is, why wouldn't you be upset when a family member refuses life saving treatment, rationalized by disinformation?
- iammisc 5y ago> A better question is, why wouldn't you be upset when a family member refuses life saving treatment, rationalized by disinformation? Because unless I'm the parents of a minor child, it's ultimately not my decision.