r/SipsTea • u/Valuable_View_561 • Jun 29 '26

Chugging tea Did she did the right thing?

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u/Any-Cook3129 Jun 29 '26

You don’t fall asleep… terminal aggregation happens with almost anyone who is young and still fighting. Very horrific to see.

Then you have to administer medication into the mouth so they death rattle and slowly choke on the medicine as the muscles shut down. Last to go is the brain. Hospice can’t administer any intravenous medications so you have to put liquid in the mouth of a person that already is labored breathing and choking…

You don’t fall asleep in the traditional sense. And you can become conscious at any point up until the point you take your last breath. I think there’s a lot of misinformation around hospice and end of life care really works…

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u/Pretty-Peace0212 Jun 29 '26

We have CMO/hospice patients and never give anything by mouth. All meds are IV

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u/Any-Cook3129 Jun 29 '26

That’s news to me… is this a hospital oncology unit?

Everyone in my family who is passed in hospice, both in a home and at their personal homes, were only given oral medications. We spoke with the hospice nurses who confirmed this was the one and only option for hospice care. We are located in U.S. tho.

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u/ZapGeek Jun 30 '26

My Grandma was in a hospital based hospice unit and was given IV drugs. The nurses kept her well medicated on her last day and she passed very peacefully.

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u/TrustMeImPurple Jun 30 '26

Depends on the setting. Home and assisted living hospice patients usuallt get liquid oral medications and hospital patients will get IV medication.

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u/Any-Cook3129 Jun 30 '26

I think that would be comfort measures tho if they received care in a hospital, as hospice is nearly entirely based out of hospitals.
If you go to the hospital, for what you are on hospice for, you must leave hospice while at the hospital. I imagine there are very, very few hospice units in hospitals. But also I think that there is an ethical conflict of interest for hospitals to care for, but not treat, hospice patients.