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Originally Posted by parmnion

Who says these people are suffering, there are many drugs to make patients comfortable. What the hell these so called workers in the caring profession are thinking when they can dictate when people die.

...have you ever actually seen someone lay in a hospital bed, slowly dying over several weeks? Organs failing and liquifying inside them, stomachs distended, their face literally rotting off of their head while they still gasp in a few more rattling breaths... the few moments a day when they are awake, incoherently babbling in pain whilst seemingly experiencing terrifying and surreal hallucinations everywhere around them...?

It's not an image I'll ever forget, personally. Sometimes DNR is entirely right. In fact, a pillow over the face a week earlier would be more "right" than the reality of it. For many - doped-up, smiling people peacefully and comfortably saying goodbye to their loved-ones, it is not.

Originally Posted by parmnion

I think you're missing the point of the idiot doctors failing to tell the families.

Again though I do agree that families should be informed of the situation... it's not fair for people to leave things unsaid not knowing that it's their last chance.