Since I'm the only one who regulary visits my folks, I'm just wondering, will they most likely die at home in their beds? or is this an old-fashioned idea?
My other relatives have all died in hospitals. Maybe I need to re-configure my concept of what may be.
If they are very sick for a long time, they often die in a hospital. If you have someone who is close to death and is in pain of any kind, please contact hospice. They can help make the person comfortable in his or her own home, if that is the choice.
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Carol
So much for the facts, at least the facts as he has witnessed. Sure enough, each morning when I'm in the city, I hear the EMT's and police cars going to some house to check on an elderly person. Many are also found on the floor near their beds.
So, dying in your sleep sounds wonderful. Death is not an easy threshold to cross. And it's painful to watch as our elders become someone we don't know. Minute by minute, day by day, week by week, month by month I watch as my own mother loses her personality to this dread dementia. It slowly creeps up, taking away her ability to swallow, her ability to hold a fork/knife; her ability to care for her hygienic needs, and the list goes on. Her ability to be dignified. Even her ability to watch a simple tv show. Her ability to even know she's got dementia!
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