Honestly that is no defense at all for over medication. I’d rather be properly medicated and risk dying on a fence than be over medicated. If I reach that point I’ve already lived enough years and I’d prefer to maintain what abilities I can have. The worse that can happen to me then is death and death at that age isn’t so bad. — This will likely rub someone the wrong way so consider the other posters are asking for euthanasia as if self euthanasia weren’t already an option and as if we weren’t already “euthanizing” people with morphine as soon as they hit hospice.
I'm not trying to defend it. Chemical restraint is terrible, as is the lack of viable alternatives.
The worst that can happen isn't death, you can fall off the fence and break 6 vertebrae and spend the next 3 months screaming in pain on top of everything else.
People don't get euthanised in hospice. Palliative care as a profession is fairly obsessed with not shortening the lives of patients they care for. There are studies for example comparing different analgesic regimens to see if there is a difference in survival.
Palliative cate the profession may be. Palliative care as practiced by hospices is more hit than miss but they do miss. You will find comments by nurses reassuring the right to die fans that end of life care covers their concerns. Hospices have hastened death before.
