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New-Negotiation7234 t1_j4ymskv wrote

Reply to comment by No_big_whoop in Family Dynamics and Doctors' Emotions Drive Useless End-of-Life Care. Surveys repeatedly indicate that nearly all people would rather die peacefully at home, yet painful, long-shot treatments remain common, and efforts to reduce usage have failed by Wagamaga

After working in health care I now have a very detailed living will and POA and everyone close to me knows my wishes. I have seen the horrors and torture families put their loved ones through. No thanks.

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justme_mb t1_j52kv63 wrote

My husband and I are just starting on this after losing my father recently with an advance directive that had I don't know checked for all the standard questions and without being notarized. It was useless and I'd like to be very clear and comprehensive in ours so no one has to decide anything, it will all be there.

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New-Negotiation7234 t1_j52m63z wrote

What I put in my living will is to have no artificial nutrition (tpn, tube feeding) if I am in a permanent altered mental status, dementia, or in a coma etc. The artificial nutrition is given wayyyy too often for no benefit to the person and it’s what keeps people alive. Also, once it is started it becomes VERY difficult for family members to take people off of it because they then feel like they are starving them and killing them. Not eating is a natural part of the death process.

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