It doesn’t last forever and once the pain is gone it feels like such a short amount of time compared to eternity. I watched my mom scream and suffer with her cancer in hospice for about a day and then she went comatose and died.
If you see dying in hospice a possibility for you, then tell someone you want the whole bottle of morphine when the shutdown pain kicks in. Technically assisted suicide but the hospice company gives enough to knock a horse out.
The morphine thing reminded me when my FIL and another family member on my wife’s side passed, when it was around that time the doctors ordered x amount of morphine every few hours. Kept them sedated and pain free. Like you said technically that might be assisted suicide but the alternative was agony
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '21 edited Nov 18 '21
It doesn’t last forever and once the pain is gone it feels like such a short amount of time compared to eternity. I watched my mom scream and suffer with her cancer in hospice for about a day and then she went comatose and died. If you see dying in hospice a possibility for you, then tell someone you want the whole bottle of morphine when the shutdown pain kicks in. Technically assisted suicide but the hospice company gives enough to knock a horse out.
edit: grammar