What happens to us after we die?

@saragoodtimes
Yepper, nursing and rehab did this to my mother when she passed. They downgrade you to another room first, call hospice, wait for you to die, then cleanup and admit a new patient. It's a profit-driven death industry with the other bookend being the funeral home.

@PatKirby double dose them with morphine usually the last thing they do for them.

@cherokeepatti
Correct, they used "measured" doses for my mother which I took to mean double-dosing towards the end.

@PatKirby my sister worked on the cancer ward at a hospital.

@cherokeepatti
Was going to ask, you sound like you've been there.

@cherokeepatti Then they sic the debt collectors on the bereaves's family.

@PatKirby my neighbor that lived behind me had dementia. She got sick and had to be hospitalized and never came home, never went to a nursing home. I think they ended her life quickly. I know she was suffering but I have to wonder how much of this goes on the USA.

@Crazywaterspring I was going to say that treatment probably stops when the insurance is maxed out and the family’s resources are finished.

@cherokeepatti I suspect that. That is an issue contributing to this country's increasing suicide rate.

@Crazywaterspring there are cheaper ways to treat many medical conditions but the doctors have no interest in that. They go for the high profit big bucks treatments.

@Crazywaterspring they treat cancer with chemo and a lot of times it does permanent damage to the body so there’s no turning back even if they had a proven cure the lungs are already damaged too bad for example.

@cherokeepatti If the cancer doesn't kill the treatment will. The patient's finances will always be left a shambles. Insurance is a racket. They make their own rules and *no one* is ever in network.

@Crazywaterspring my father got prostate cancer (his father died from prostate cancer and his mother died from breast cancer) and the doctor wanted to do surgery right away. He told him he had some business to take care of first, went to Arizona to a medicine woman and got treated with herbs and came back and had his pre-op tests done and there was no sign of cancer. I think he stayed out in Arizona a couple weeks.

@cherokeepatti Medical reasons are a big part why I'm retiring in SE Asia. I would be eligible for their national healthcare and their doctors, nurses and hospitals are quite competent. Governor Abbott tort refomed things so a patient or their family can't sue for malpractice.

@Crazywaterspring
[quote] Insurance is a racket.[/quote]
^Bingo!^

[quote]Medical reasons are a big part why I'm retiring in SE Asia. I would be eligible for their national healthcare and their doctors, nurses and hospitals are quite competent. [/quote]
Good choice, I've chosen Panama myself.