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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: i-node who wrote (6385)	3/14/2009 2:30:48 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 42652

Had she been on hospice treatment, she would have been treated in her own home. That was my point. I cared for my dad in home hospice. When you call, they send someone unless it's an emergency independent of what's killing you in which case they call an ambulance and the patient is automatically admitted. Now, I don't know what they would have done if it was simply too cold to stay in her home, but they would have taken charge and done something. You sound as though you know exactly what I mean... Only partially. I wasn't around my mom at that time and I have it only second hand from my dad, who was caring for her. It never occurred to me at the time that she didn't know she was dying because she wasn't stupid, but my father said otherwise after the fact. My dad had said for several years that he hoped he wouldn't live to see his next birthday so he was pretty mellow about the end. When he realized he wasn't going to ever feel really good again, he just stopped eating. Or so I inferred. He never spoke of it. I thought it was as good a death as one can expect. I'm very high on hospice.

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