evans@mhuxt.UUCP (crandall) (11/26/85)
This posting really bothered me. A dying person is not like some ball
game which a doctor can win or lose. I felt so terribly sorry and horrified
for that poor woman. We all have to die sometime. Can't patients be treated
with more dignity? Since everyone knew that ther was no hope the response
should not have been more needles, more tubes, more pain and invasion. It
should have been loved ones by the bedside, tender speech, and held hands.
A neighbor who is a nurse had only seen hospital deaths and was terrified
of dying till she helped at our at home vigil for my Mother's death. Mom was
relaxed, happy that she was leaving pain, and enjoying the prescence of
friends and family. It would be wonderful if dying hospital patients could
have peaceful deaths, too.
Sukie Crandall