Clay, I'm sorry for the passing of your Father. I salute his life and memory with the greatest respect.
Grant. On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 9:44 PM, clay <redgh...@comcast.net> wrote: > Grant, > > you do not want the death the health system allows. Watching through the > night as my father met his maker was really wrenching. The quality of his > last month was really bad, but not horrid. He was a proud man who kept > himself ship shape looking. Would be properly attired to leave the house, > no matter where he was headed. Even when he felt like crap, he tried, and > mostly succeeded in pulling off being dignified. He took three days after > the oncologist told him he had congestive heart failure (which he knew he > had and was being treated for over the past 15 years) instead of accepting > her failure to treat adequately, for him to give up on living. The last 36 > hours he was in no way dignified, as his mind shut down, and the rest of > his body followed. > > Had he chosen to live his last months without chemo, he would have lived > much longer. Medical malpractice and the poisoning of chemo not only > reduced his time left on earth, but robbed him of his dignity. Had he been > put on a cross, his end would have been a bit more dignified. Friendly > fire in Korea would have been more dignified. Loosing his election to > state legislature (libertarian) to a quadriplegic, lesbian of color > receiving welfare and being a crack 'Ho would have been more dignified. > > clay > > > > On Aug 1, 2013, at 7:45 PM, G Mann wrote: > > > And the alternate is what? Quality of Death? > > > > My apologies to the politically correct, but I'm not a fan of "quality > > death"... it's not in my programming.. > > > > Besides, I'm sure to die in a hail of hollowpoint DHS bullets in the > coming > > revolution, being a veteran, a conservative, and a Christian, I'm already > > of the short list to be hunted down, just for existing. Let me know how > > that works out... OK? > > > > Grant... Off to the Snowden retirement center for a round of > > shuffleboard....;))) > > > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > > >> In an emergency situation where you have limited resources its called > >> triage, you save the people you can and comfort those who are traveling > to > >> whatever is next. > >> > >> Strangely in general medicine we've somehow decided that everybody needs > >> to live forever and 90 year old patients should be kept alive through > >> extraordinary measures but with zero quality of life... > >> > >> -Curt > >> > >> > >> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2013 15:08:22 -0500 > >> From: Mountain Man <maontin....@gmail.com> > >> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Treating cancer [was Re: Roger?] > >> Message-ID: > >> <calk3cy53auwrtrcvdoo9whqcknv-8ayzsoi-stnagyi4ttw...@mail.gmail.com> > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > >> > >> Mitch wrote: > >>> Yikes, what's the point of having prescription drug insurance if they > >> can do > >>> that to you? > >> > >> It is called Death Panel. > >> Doctors do this all the time when they participate in emergency > >> recovery drill such as airplane crash. Individuals are graded as to > >> survivor or not and that is the practice. Death Panel is not new, but > >> when family comes to forefront, cost be damned. > >> mao > >> _______________________________________ > >> http://www.okiebenz.com > >> > >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >> > >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >> > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
