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Old 01-30-2010, 09:47 AM
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Originally Posted by davidmash View Post
I cannot understand how someone can sit idly by and let a loved one suffer or waste away. I would have thought the results would be opposite. Te folks who are not in the situation would be against it on moral grounds and the folks who are or were in the situation would be the ones for it.
My theory is that there is an issue of guilt involved. Wife has seen many people in the nursing homes that have been neglected by relatives UNTIL the day they are starting to die. AT that time and not before, suddenly, all the relatives come out of the woodwork. IMO, at that point they suddenly want to do everything the can to assuage their guilt of neglect. That might factor into why they want the relatives to be kept alive as long as possible. So they can make amends.
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