http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/01/how-do-doctors-want-to-die/ Keeping You Current Fri, 24 May 2013 15:39:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/01/how-do-doctors-want-to-die/comment-page-1/#comment-3684 CptBoots Sat, 19 Jan 2013 09:42:15 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/?p=9954#comment-3684 My dad was a doctor, he died in the hospital. We found out later that he had some possibly cancerous growths in his stomach that could have been related to the symptoms he went in with, he ultimately died from blood toxicity, over an infection. But, I think he wanted to go as easily as he could. He still seemed a little nerved by the whole ordeal. In the last moments, seeming to know that he was fading to black. He had to take care of his father in his last more than half a decade when he was dying, if I'm not mistaken maybe it was from a stomach related illness, I myself haven't had the best health with my intestines *shrug* but he probably didn't want to linger in a state of constant deterioration, using the rest of what his kids would inherit etc... eventually in expanding the ammount of time he got to use a feeding tube, catheter, etc.. in the final days. I see a lot of validity in this article. My dad was a doctor, he died in the hospital. We found out later that he had some possibly cancerous growths in his stomach that could have been related to the symptoms he went in with, he ultimately died from blood toxicity, over an infection. But, I think he wanted to go as easily as he could. He still seemed a little nerved by the whole ordeal. In the last moments, seeming to know that he was fading to black. He had to take care of his father in his last more than half a decade when he was dying, if I’m not mistaken maybe it was from a stomach related illness, I myself haven’t had the best health with my intestines *shrug* but he probably didn’t want to linger in a state of constant deterioration, using the rest of what his kids would inherit etc… eventually in expanding the ammount of time he got to use a feeding tube, catheter, etc.. in the final days. I see a lot of validity in this article.

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