Do Some Hospice Care Providers Haten Death Through Use Of Morphine Overdoses + Other Means?
by Bill Beckman, Executive Director, Illinois Right to Life Committee Editor’s Note: This is the sixth in a series of columns first posted on the Illinois Right to Life Committee’s (IRLC) website [http://www.illinoisrighttolife.org/] written by Bill Beckman, IRLC’s executive director. The column discusses hospice care. Beckman relates nightmarish, firsthand recollections regarding patients and their hospice providers. This series warns readers about end of life issues and the need to monitor the care given to loved ones. The IRLC director also describes what readers can do to protect themselves from the looming culture of death which permeates the thinking of many medical facilities in our nation. The following was written by Bill Beckman * Hospice has developed a good reputation for providing compassionate care for dying patients. A key principle of this care is: hospice neither artificially prolongs life nor hastens death. Unfortunately, this principle is no longer consistently follo
