Prolonging Living or Prolonging Dying?

HImom
Tue, 09 Aug 2016 06:43:54 +0000

It is difficult to really KNOW what another is going thru, especially folks living with various progressive chronic disease. Some have constant, unrelenting pain, some are always short of breath, some have progressively been trapped in their bodies, and the list goes on.

I am saddened that many people I’ve come to know over the past decade have died–many with multiple chronic conditions that caused multiple exhausting hospitalizations. In the end, many were pretty exhausted and tired of fighting for life and breath.

When I’m exhausted and too tired to fight for breath in the future, I’d like to die peacefully and with dignity at home instead of painfully being hooked to machines which just get in the way.