Dear Judy,
Maybe you’ve never gotten an email like this before. Our father had a stroke 2 months ago and is now on life support. He has tubes running all through him, for eating and for breathing too. He can’t talk. He recognizes nobody.
My younger brother who lives in Salt Lake City, more than 900 miles [...]
Dear Judy,
My elderly father has lived for four years in an assisted living community, where he signed a “Do-Not-Resuscitate” document in the event his heart stopped beating, and also wrote out — in pen — his desire not to have either feeding or breathing tubes, if push came to shove.
Well he suffered congestive heart failure, [...]
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 [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009