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If you are going to get sick and die, try and do it at home. Select an educated care giver, or firm that will meet your specific needs. Usually you meet giving and caring people along that path. Utilize people you like and trust. Lay it out before hand if you can Don't be unreasonable in your demands, but don't let your needs go unattended.

Remember, taking a dump and getting a shower become difficult but very necessary tasks. If possible use professional help on these, not your family. Usually you need help twice a day, for about 2 to 4 hours per visit. A maid to keep the place clean. A CNA can do most of the personal physical care stuff. An LPN to do the next line of care. Doctors don't like to deal with dying people, and generally are the least compassionate of the 'death squad' team.

Impending death causes many patients and family care givers to go nuts. They take a very difficult situation and make it really bizarre and uncomfortable for all involved. I've seen people literally tear their homes apart in strange efforts to deal the vagaries of dying. There comes a point where drugs for pain are just that. The patient is a goner, never needing to worry about addiction. At the same time there are agitation drugs that are nothing more than physical restraint chemicals. Doctors don't know what the fk they are prescribing and generally rely on drug company reps for the info. i.e. something new and really expensive.

As far as end of life stuff. Well, its best to understand what drug cocktails are being given. Some of the drugs do nothing more than stop your breathing by paralyzing you. They are worse than the drug cocktails provided to condemned criminals. For some reason its very hard for the Medical Profession and Industry to allow you to OD on some really cool pain killer with hallucinogenic qualities. Or one that just lets you hold somebodies hand and slide off the face of the earth.

Death is a crap shoot. It's anybody's guess how it will go, and how long the game goes on. It is generally very humiliating, and one is left with nothing but your character. Education, money, associations and friends, don't seem to have a lot to do with the humanity you take with you to the grave.
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