Her hands are folded in her lap, clutching a small beaded purse. Nearly 50 percent of the elderly US population now die in nursing homes or hospitals.
NextJudy Your article is hitting the nail right on the head.
Now we are trapped. In the old days, she would be propped up on a comfy pillow, in fresh cleaned sheets under the corner window where she would in days gone past watch her children play.
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Her father watches from the porch in a wooden rocker, laughing while mom gently scolds her brother.
NextWe could see her standing in a small church.
She laughs with her barefoot brother, who is clad in overalls, as he chases her around the yard with a grasshopper on his finger. I pray that I die a peaceful death - like the one you so beautifully described.
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So that is another prayer I have - that someone will address that for me when the time comes. You are also a teacher and I only hope that your students everywhere - residents, interns, young people, businessmen, elderly etc.
NextWe could see her taking a ride for the first time in an automobile, a small pickup with wooden panels driven by a young man with wavy curls.
As care providers, we have the responsibility to educate people and decline to offer care that offers nothing else but endless suffering- emotional and physical.
NextPerhaps the radio softly played Al Jolson or Glenn Miller, flowers sat on the nightstand, and family quietly came and went.