BREAKING NEWS: Care homes in the UK caught using death penalty drugs, was this to artificially bump the COVID numbers up?
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My next door neighbour who had medium dementia died really quickly in a care home in the summer of 2020. He died quickly of pneumonia pretty much over a day. The care home wanted to write it down as covid even though he had had several tests which were all negative. He wasn't a fit person, but he had no specific illnesses that I know of except the dementia. I think it is likely that he was murdered, He was in his mid seventies. I was not expecting him to die.
I think hastening people's departure is a common occurrence in hospitals and nursing homes. There is a fine line between making terminally ill patients comfortable and making sick people sick enough to die...it's all about the $$$$, especially when they die with covid. The hospitals should be paid when people recover, not when they die...I think we'd see definite improvement...
This is true. Morphine is used to hasten death. It is not "care".
Yes...when my dad died (Alzheimer's) I questioned the morphine...he was terminal...but the morphine is supposed to help them relax so they more easily pass, which may be true. But morphine can damage the kidneys, which is usually what causes a patient to die...it is vicious cycle...
First of all, you can refuse any medication you wish to refuse in hospice, although COVID patients were not afforded this basic right in hospitals. Second, any and all meds damage the kidneys and liver to some extent. Third, most patients in hospice don't die from medication-induced kidney failure. The normal stages of death are a process of shutting down the body. The extremities are the first to go - feet, hands, legs, arms - you can see the mottling process as the body shuts down support. The next to go are the reproductive and digestive organs, including the intestines, kidneys, liver, pancreas, stomach, etc. This is why patients start refusing food and water, and they start sleeping more. Their bodies stop processing food and water to preserve resources for the heart, lungs, and brain. For non-cancer patients, morphine helps with the pain, anxiety, and shortness of breath with the last stages as the heart, lungs, and finally the brain shut down. For cancer patients, morphine helps to relieve severe and intractable cancer pain. It is administered orally, and the family and the patient are in charge of administration. They can refuse it at any time.