I heard today it`s been a year.
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On the other hand, you hate to see a person suffer for a long time while clinging to life. But one year of hospice, aka the deathpanel, is a milestone.
Hospice is not a "deathpanel." My wife works in those environments. Some are better than others, but that is true of anything human. Please get that nonsense out of your thinking.
Regardless, hospice does kill you.
Well, my wife has been a caregiver in hospice situations and knows about them professionally. Sometimes they can do much to reverse a declining trend. Your expertise is what? Prejudice? You have no credentials for the authority you wish to display.
That is true, especially in a situation where one has been undergoing cancer treatments for oh so many years such as Jimmy Carter. Most hospice stays last six months or less and usually end with the person's death.