The 2015 trivial drivel thread

[Carsman]

Does it mean that death is near when one is put in hospice?

Not necessarily. A person can be on hospice for a year. The function of hospice is to make the terminal patient as comfortable as possible when further treatment would be pointless. Hospice offers palliative care versus rehabitative or custodial care.

Very true. There are those who only last very short time, however some last "comfortably" in hospice for quite some time.

Both my mom & dad were in Hospice together at the same time, same place. My dad was there for about 7 months before going to heaven, and my mom was there for another 9 months before being back with him again. They both were extremely well cared for through out their duration there. (Guess there are "various degrees" of hospice care)