End_Of_Life_Issues

End Of Life Issues Edith Reynolds was born June 7th 1904. She lived a wonderful, full life; she was even an Army Nurse in the war. She has no regrets; not even the time she let her oldest daughter, Tina, bring that stray puppy home, and it scratched up the couch and ate the Easter ham off the table. Edith’s dear husband Oscar died a year ago today of the same cancer she has now. Edith still asks for her husband several times when she is in a great deal of pain or the hospital room gets to lonely. Edith has Alzheimer’s as well as cancer and each and every time she whispers a plea to Tina to, “Let me go on home with daddy,” Tina just tells her to hold on a little longer for the family. Event like the above scene happen each and everyday, many American must struggle through their last days either alone or under the care of someone who doesn’t have their best interest in mind. Many people young and old, who are ill and well don’t know about Advance Directives or they just put it off until it is too late. Advance care, living, euthanasia, one, life, people, home, family, person, about, end-of-life, end, dying, should, hospice, death, time, suicide, issues, ill, educated, edith, advance, very, tina, times, suffering, roth, possible, pain, one’s, off, matter, make, issue