Moral, ethical, spiritual dilemmas

[caroledalphin]

When someone is slowly dying & family are either assuring him of the need to "fight", while hospital care givers are trying to explain to those above that all the fight in the world isn't going to stop the inevitable & are saying, "give the poor guy a break & let him go", and the person in the center of all this controversy is telling doctors and

Comments

[possumcowboy]

D.A.G. is one of my favorite family members. It's a difficult thing to think about, how to deal with end-of-life issues when someone is in pain and unlikely to recover.

He's been a good wife to J.O.G., and dad to R.O. I've always been impressed with his breadth of knowledge and ability to make the device that he wanted to do a specific task.

I haven't any pat answers. Just know that we all love him very much.

[caroledalphin]

He will recieve your loving words when we visit him after dinner tonight. Thank you, Louie. Death is easy, it's life that's hard.

[mjhamilton]

Is there a hospital social worker or a counselor with the local hospice that could be consulted for advice? I'm just thinking that someone who has experience with these types of situations, and has been previously uninvolved with the patient's care might be helpful in making a decision that one could live with peacefully. From what I've heard from others, hospice often helps support the family as much as the ill person.

How sad for both of them, though...all of you will be in my thoughts. I can't help to think how unfair this is to J. to have to go through this type of experience twice in one lifetime, it's beyond cruel. I also think you are a very good sister.