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To: Dale Baker who wrote (154188)	1/12/2011 7:08:48 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 540794

Having been through an extended end of like experience with a close relative, I know exactly what this is about and what is said in the ICU with the hospital counselors and all the rest. I am not pulling this out of my ass and making it all up. Sorry for your loss - I hope they went painlessly. The implication of end of life counseling is the indirect message that people facing serious illness should be nudged toward hospice care, giving up on seeking a cure. Hospice care is the place people go to die and generally pretty quickly and not entirely naturally as relatives can attest. I'm not against doing this - but to deny it's going to happen is unrealistic and worse the Government may, due to costs, promote this in the future. The conversation started with people using guns to commit suicide - half of all gun deaths are suicide and many among the elderly. It is naive to think end of life counseling will not inform more eldery of other options available - like Hospice. I for one would welcome fewer gun related deaths.