Dear Judy,
I have read through your advice and appreciate the frankness and perspective.
My question is: The process of dying — what does it look like? What shuts down? How do people handle it? For example: Does a person become constipated? Do hospices give patients laxatives? Or just leave them alone.
I ask because my father has [...]
Dear Judy,
I hear you get a lot of emails from people who don’t think dying is the worst thing that can happen to a person. But I do. My father is in hospice care, and my mother and sister want his feeding tube removed. I think that’s about on a par with murder.
My father has thyroid [...]
Dear Judy,
My friend was a dynamic 86-year-old who had all the tools in place for a peaceful end. He had a health care proxy, a Living Will and a loving family who supported his wish for just palliative care. In other words: he wanted no life-prolonging measures after cancer invaded his bones.
He was so [...]
Dear Judy,
I just learned that my mother has terminal cancer. My best friend has been told her mother has Alzheimer’s, past the mild stage. Her memory is shot.
Neither knows about her own diagnosis –yet. But I fully intend to tell my mother about her cancer, so she can make plans and decide whether or not [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009