eli5: Patients in hospice care are often unconscious due to high doses of sedative drugs, and are given no intravenous fluids, which leads to death by dehydration. Why is this done? Is there any difference between this and physician-assisted suicide?
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I would just prefer to get it over with via a massive dose of opiates. Let me drift off to sleep and never wake. No need in drawing out the process and making my loved ones suffer seeing me in a state that they’ll likely remember long after I’m gone.
My mother choked on a piece of meat, putting her in a vegetative state and while there was no love lost between my mother and I, the mental image of her that I remember most is of her with the loud ventilator going and her chest exaggeratedly rising and falling with the sound. Not all the stuff I remember about her when I was a kid, but THAT memory is stuck with me as the memory of her.
No sir, remember me at my best, not at my worst.
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