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We're graceful to our pets when they get to this point, but want to hook people up to machines or such, sometimes for an awful long time, when they're rather wizened.
Even when you don't do that, it can still be awful. 1poormom had a stroke. She lost the ability to speak or swallow. The latter was a huge problem. She couldn't take in water. I knew she didn't want machines. But when the doctor said there was no chance of recovery, they just put her on morphine. As near as I can tell, she died of thirst about a week later. Not in pain, but almost gasping towards the end. We should have a system -with lots of checks!- to be able to put them to sleep as we would a loved pet. But no...put them in a mostly-unconscious state and let them die slowly. How is that better or humane?
