I Know You Love Me — Now Let Me Die | Louis M. Profeta MD | LinkedIn

[W]e became blinded by the endless tones of monitors and whirrs of machines, buzzers, buttons and tubes that can add five years to a shell of a body that was entrusted to us and should have been allowed to pass quietly propped up in a corner room, under a window, scents of homemade soup in case she wanted a sip.

You see now we can breathe for her, eat for her and even pee for her. Once you have those three things covered she can, instead of being gently cradled under that corner window, be placed in a nursing home and penned in cage of bed rails and soft restraints meant to "keep her safe."

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A day does not go by where my partners don’t look at each other and say, “How do we stop this madness? How do we get people to let their loved ones die?” 

I Know You Love Me — Now Let Me Die | Louis M. Profeta MD | LinkedIn