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Ever gone to an "End of Life" meeting with the family and an elderly loved one?
It's no fun. Especially when the loved one in question doesn't understand that
the family and the physicians are just as helpless as they are in that situation.
The first thing my mother did was say, "No feeding tubes, no artificial life support."
Then began to accuse us of "leaving me to die like a bunch of damn baboons". Insulted the doctor, insulted my Dad, insulted us, insulted pretty much everyone she encountered on her way back to her room. Two years later the Alzheimers finally took her.
I still miss that tough old bird.
Dave
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"When the lie is so big and the fog so thick, the Republican trick can play out again....."-------Frank Zappa
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