my father was in hospice and yes his health was failing and he was dying on his nursing home bed but my questiion is , it is strange that right when the hospice nurse came to give my dad his morphine shot about two minutes later he died, now you ask, did i want to see him continue to die,? no and if he was suffering i dont know, the night before he was fine, granted his health was getting worse and worse, the fine line these days is would you want to see him suffer any longer or end his misery , well most would think it is ok to assist a person to not suffer, i believe i dont have nor does anyone have that power to take or assist one in his deathl. ONLY God does. so my question is , in hospice, is this what they do? do they assist medically by giving overdose of morphine to patients they think are dying anyway? I am so mad that i just recieved his prescription drug statement and i see that the facility ordered morphone sul sol 20 mgs /MI qty 15 , a five day supply filled 15 dont know if that is what they gave him at once because all i know is that the night before he was fine and that morning i was there with him when they called me to come that he was unresponsive and when i opened his eyes he was not seeing, he was strugling to breathe but he heard me tell him i loved him he told me love back and also to my mom, so what i am getting at is all morning long nothing was administered to him but after about an hour of him struggling to breath the hospice doctor said we are going to give him morphine, right away i thought " why" the only logical reasoning i dont beleive in was so they can let him go easily but my belief is NOONE HAS THAT RIGHT TO ASSIST MEDICALLY OR OTHERWISE , ONLY GOD CAN STOP SOMEONES HEART TO TAKE THEM . THEN AGAIN I AM THINKING LOGICALLY HE WAS ALREADY DYING, AND AS MUCH AS I DONT WANT THIS, I DIDNT WANT TO SEE HIM STRUGGLE ANY LONGER, BUT EITHER WAY I DIDNT KNOW IF HE WAS DYING NATURALLY BUT I TRUELY BELIEVE THAT GOD SAW WHAT WAS GOING ON AND EVEN THOUGH HE WAS READY TO TAKE HIM, THE MORPHINE JUST ACCELLERATED THE EASING OUT OF THIS LIFE FOR HIM ACCORDING TO THE DOCTORS. I AM SO SAD, BUT I ALSO DIDINT WANT HIM TO SUFFER ANY LONGER, HE WAS STRUGGLING TO BREATHE FOR TWO HOURS, BUT I KNOW THAT GOD ALLOWED HIM TO TELL US HE LOVED US ONE LAST TIME, AND HE DID, EVEN THOUGH THE HOSPICE DOCTOR SAID IT WAS MEDICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO DO SO, WELL THAT IS THE POWER OF GOD WE THAT BELIEVE KNOW EXISTS AND OTHERS DONT, AT LEAST HE TOLD US HE LOVED US BEFORE HE TOOK HIS LAST BREATH... WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS READING THIS, WAS THAT AN ASSISTED DEATH OF SOME TYPE ON THE HOSPICE DECISION, I SAW THAT THE LEATHEL DOSE IS SIXTY MGS BUT HE WAS FRAIL AND WEAK AND ABOUT 150 POUNDS. WOULD THAT OF PUT HIM DOWN WITHIN A MINUTE AS I SAW IT DID RIGHT AFTER THEY GAVE IT TO HIM? HE IS GONE NOW AND IT WAS HIS TIME, I KNOW THAT GOD OPENED HIS ARMS AND TOOK HIM KNOWING WHAT WAS GONIG ON AND HE DIDNT WANT HIM TO SUFFER ANY LONGER, AND HE ALLOWED HIM TO TELL US HE LOVED US.... WE ALL HEARD IT...