I have posted on here many times and answered questions every now and then. Dad passed away Oct 7th 2013 from Liver Cancer . He was in a hospice facility for 11 days until he died. The day before he was admitted he was in the hospital and was talking,eating and very clear headed but his ammonia levels were high and he had been very combative, not eating and wouldn't take his meds for 4 days at his nursing home. ( He was in for a Psych Evaluation.) The hospice worker talked to me about admitting him instead of returning to the nursing home. I agreed to this and arrangements were made. He was transferred later that day and was alert and in good spirits. The next morning he was unresponsive and stayed that way until he passed. They gave him morphine and ativan around the clock. He never got any water but they did cleanse his mouth and moisten it with swabs. It seemed like he could hear me the first few days because I would shake his shoulder and say "dad". His eyes seemed to be moving under his eyelids and his mouth would move slightly. I did ask about them lowering his dosages so he could wake up a little. The nurse said he was getting a very small dosage already. I just wonder if the drugs made him unresponsive and if less was used he could have ate and drank and lived longer. I know it was time for him to go but I'm kinda puzzled about his going from complete alertness and straight into unresponsiveness so quick. The nurses did a Great job. I myself don't know how they do it. They treated dad like he was their baby. So gentle and compassionate. I was just wondering if anyone else had the feeling that death felt a little rushed once their loved one was placed in Hospice.
We had the same incidents.
With both of our parents.
I’m so sorry for what your parents had to endure as well. With sincere sympathy,
Lisa
Four days after she began refusing fluids, she died. She was not thrashing in pain or crying out with anxiety. She was alseep, surrounded by her loved ones. It was a beautiful time ... I'm grateful she was comfortable and died peacefully in her sleep.
Grief can skew your thoughts. Often hospice is called much too late, when the loved one only has weeks, maybe even days to live. It would seem easy/logical then to assume and blame hospice. I found hospice to be only helpful. They answered calls quickly ... even nights, weekends and holidays. I say God Bless them and the work they do.
What amazing service they offer! No need for an Auschwitz or Dachau as Hospice will conveniently come to your home & murder you in your own bed! Or like they did when they murdered my uncle as he left the hospital to return home. They repeatedly shot him up with toxic levels of morphine (against the family's orders) so that by the time he arrived home he no longer needed care. He only needed a mortician!
Why would I call either of these deaths murder?
Because I have worked as an expert in wrongful death cases involving prescription drugs for close to three decades now & we have gathered all the evidence on both cases to prove, without a shadow of doubt, that both of these deaths were very clearly MURDER!
As these cases continue to be proven in court let's hope these nurses & doctors committing these crimes will begin to see they are actually guilty of murder & can be prosecuted as such. Maybe then, as they face the reality of their guilt, they will grow a conscience & this nightmare will finally come to an end!
Everyone needs to go to the website for Hospice Patient Alliance at www.hospicepatients.org just as I did when I went into shock at my father's extremely rapid decline & sudden death & found everything I already knew must have been the case in my father's death spelled out, demonstrating the exact method of the murder in detail! My father was dead in only days after Hospice arrived to "Help"!
Learn the truth about what is really happening to your loved ones before it is too late for you & your loved one too!
The overwhelming majority of people going onto hospice are elderly and on medicare. Their rule is that you can't use medicare benefits (see a doctor) when you're on hospice, so you're effectively sealed off from any treatment what so ever, even for a simple and routine UTI.
I can understand that terminal illnesses will no longer be treated, but hospice providers neglect to treat anything except for discomfort and they ignore everything else. The only solution they have to anything is to throw morphine and ativan on it. I'd be interested to find out how many hospice patients actually died from their terminal illness as opposed to a routine medical condition that was neglected.
By design, since you're no longer allowed to seek a doctors care for any reason what so ever, death is certain and hospice becomes a way to quickly dispose of the elderly in order to save medicare money. In it's present implementation, it is non-voluntary euthanasia by neglect.