Hospice as an Option

Dr. Kevorkian, sometimes called Dr. Death, was released from prison on Friday, June 1, 2007. Dr. Kevorkian claims to have helped nearly 130 people end their lives throufh physician-assisted suicide.

Hospice of Michigan, the largest hospice in Michigan, serving more than 800 people each day, has created a video to raise awareness that hospices provide comfort, compassion, and relief of pain and suffering so that people with serious illnesses can maximize their quality of life. We think Dr. Kevorkian presented a false choice to people who were vulnerable: suffer in pain, or ask for your own death. Hospice treats the whole person -- their emotional, spiritual and physical needs.

What was missing in Dr. Kevorkian's approach was true compassion for the individual's needs. We hope this video will be a reminder that there are services that help people live well in their last chapter of life.

Hospice of Michigan
400 Mack Avenue, Detroit, MI 48201 313-578-5000.

For more information, contact Tracy Lark.

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[USStateSponTerrorism]

I have studied enough about medicine to be able to go into almost any Hospice "facility" in the U.S. and if I have the permission to review all the records and talk to the patients I can prove that many of them are there against their will and being subjected to drug-induced comas and even being strapped down in their beds in order to prevent them from complaining to the police, family or visitors that they are being abused!!!

[marinagipps]

My dad lasted less than 3 days in hospice because he had an allergic reaction to morphine even though we had warned the D.O. that he was allergic. She didn't seem to care. Before she put him under she said: "Your last conversation with your father is probably the last one you'll ever have." She had not been practicing medicine long & seems to be protected by a system that accepts the

inducing of death upon the terminally ill as "normal" (instead of giving something reasonable for pain. )

[USStateSponTerrorism]

Your case is just like my father's. My stepmother put my Dad in Hospice, they strapped him to the bed, gave him a drug induced coma and starved him to death by giving him glucose intravenously but with a very low concentration of glucose. He lost 35 lbs in 3 weeks like that and died. Hospice murdered my father and they are doing it all over the country in order to save the hospitals and insurance companies money.

[marinagipps]

I want Doctor Kevorkian to look at my father's case in Hospice so that he can tell them that they are the same as Assisted Suicide. My father was slipped into a drug induced coma on purpose by Hospice. At least people who signed up for Euthanasia knew what they were getting.

[broadwaypoetess]

(I live in NY, but I was searching for Kevorkian videos and found this.)

My grandmother spent the last two months of her life in hospice care and the nurses were wonderful and provided my family with a lot of information about the dying process. I'm currently a Gerontology minor.

I highly recommend hospice, but I believe that a patient has a right to choose their death if they are suffering and do not feel that hospice is right for them. (After they're educated on hospice services, of course.)