Reply To: Legal / halachic advance directives in healthcare

Exctlawyer is exactly right. I don’t know where people like JD get their information from.
Patients aren’t forced into hospice, it’s their ( or their health care proxy’s) choice.
Doctors don’t give up; if anything they refuse to give up and want to to administer more powerful drugs or invasive surgeries.
Hospices don’t starve patients; that would be murder. My mil was on an IV. The goal of hospice is to make the patients last days as comfortable as possible. It’s difficult to be comfortable if your conscious and starving.