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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (99639)	3/27/2005 4:16:44 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Morphine is part of palliative care that hospices provide to dying patients. They want to make absolutely sure that death is painless. It is part of the standard of care protocols, and I would assume was approved by the court. While it is accurate to say that she is receiving morphine, you cannot assume that she actually is in pain. As the kidneys shut down, chemicals that cause euphoria are released; the body has its own marvelous end-of-life mechanisms. The whole philosophy of hospice care is based on death without pain, so they lean over backwards by providing morphine for all patients in this situation. I'm sorry your sleep was disturbed! Everyone has their own beliefs about whether this is right or not. Do you want to live for a prolonged period of time with a feeding tube and no brain activity? Be sure to get those papers signed! Your ancestors most certainly died the same way Terri is dying. It is normal to stop drinking water and eating at the end of life. I heard on the news this morning that Tom DeLay was involved in making the decision to pull a feeding tube from his own father, who had suffered brain damage and had no hope of recovery.