.... I feel like this was what you described for the 3 out of four.
I don't think I was clear. What I should have said was of the 4 people I know who went on end of life hospice, i.e., all regular meds, food and water are withheld and you are loaded up with morphine, 3 of them were so out of it that the health proxy person made the decision. The 4th was a younger person ( 66) who had multiple myeloma (destroys immune system) and he ended up with a trifecta of infections, fungus, bacteria, virus, was on major IV antibiotics that were not controlling the infections, in pain and finally said "f**k it, stop all treatments', show my wife how to admin morphine and send me home."
Last thing he did with me and a couple of good friends, was to break out a bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue, toast to a good life, good friends, good family, load up on the morphine and slip into oblivion.
MOD: I didn't mean to hijack the thread but I thought my original thread was relevant to Tony Dow going into hospice.