re: Close relative is in hospice...(update page 5)

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Thank you to everyone in this thread who provided testimony as well as kind thoughts. I guess my point in this thread was: it's so easy for me (as the person tasked with making the decisions) to just be "I hope his angel comes and takes him quietly during the night". But I'm terrified of being too casually dismissive of another human being's lived experience. What if what we see on the outside isn't indicative of the internal reality? This person only has this one life - who am I to declare it not worth living?...

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I don’t envy your position and I understand this is so difficult from a philosophical standpoint. All you can do is the best you can do with the information you have and with the best intentions. That’s all any person in your shoes could do. Don’t be too hard on yourself.