rather than in hospitals, a trend that reflects a growing embrace of hospice care and the kind of end-of-life experience that most people say they want.in this week’s edition of the New England Journal of Medicine., a cardiologist with the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System and the study’s senior author. “Death has become overly medicalized over the last century” and this shows a turn away from that, he added.
“I made him exactly what he wanted to eat, whenever he wanted it. He had a Scotch every night, he had a very high quality of life. If he woke up at 2 o’clock in the morning and wanted to have coffee and pie, that’s what we did,” she said.The type of illness matters, McNair said. Besides her father, she helped care for a brother who died of Lou Gehrig’s disease in his 50s, and her mother, who died at age 92 in a nursing home after a long decline in health.
“We had to really reshuffle our lives. I was determined not to put her into a facility,” said Beach, who is a nurse. “We were alone with her at the time of death and I wish we had had more support.”
That's because they can't afford hospitals. Not with insurance co-pays and half the time no insurance.
Who wants to spend their last moments in a cold hospital room when you can chill at the crib before checking out?!?!
Too expensive to die in hospital
You'll soon be purchasing an ever increasingly expensive permit to die at home from health care providers.
As it should be.
Ty it rly worked ❤
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