Fluids are essential to help the body slowly ease into organs shutting down without sudden dehydration, which is supposed to be very painful! It must be individual hospice rules.
-----Original Message----- From: felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org [mailto:felvtalk-boun...@felineleukemia.org] On Behalf Of Marcia Baronda Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 9:24 AM To: felvtalk@felineleukemia.org Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Euthanasia My mom had morphine...hospice wouldn't allow fluids. Sent from my iPad that my most awesome kids surprised me with, Christmas 2010. On Sep 26, 2012, at 5:43 AM, Lorrie <felineres...@frontier.com> wrote: >> On 09-25, Marcia wrote: > >> My 3 other siblings and I took care of my Mom for 3 weeks while she >> died at home. Her request(: hospice said no fluid, so she laid there >> with nothing all that time, struggling to breath, to swallow. Etc. I >> only cried one time during that 3 weeks, because I had a job to do >> that required quite a bit of mental strength and clarity. The day I >> broke down was when Timothy McVay was euthanized. I cried because my >> mother was suffering and that son of a bitch died effortlessly. >> People should have that choice and in some countries they do. But not here in the land of the free. >> > That must have been a terrible expeience for you Marcia. Wasn't she > given fluids by mouth and morphine? > > As for McVay - He should have been tortured to death! Criminals also > get free surgery and all the other things we don't get. > > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org _______________________________________________ Felvtalk mailing list Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
