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To: Dale Baker who wrote (118741)	8/18/2009 9:28:59 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) of 541933

<<little old ladies>> Not many people with any medical background think that last month is very good as typically practiced in America. As a critical care nurse told me, "There are bad ways to die and not so bad ways. Living on tubes is not one of the not so bad ways." There is a big line between acute resuscitation and extended life support even when using similar technology. Something you might be able to bear for 5 minutes would steal your soul if you had to experience it 24 / 7 for 30 days. End of life is unbelievably uncomfortable for some dying people (analogous to water boarding, IMO, from what I've experienced in first hand surgical recovery). Therapeutic management of the end of life has to be done by someone medically trained (usually nurses). They provide a similar service as a midwife does at the start of life. Having a devoted and caring Dying Patient Advocate at the hospice is the best thing that anyone could hope for as they depart this world. What the patient wants is better served by someone who first regards the total being of the patient and their wishes.

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