Here it is 2022 and I will admit that end-of-life decision making algorithms and comfort-care medical orders have laid the path to reduced suffering. However, sometimes there is family baggage, dysfunction and outright animosity toward the poor dude that is at death's door. I have witnessed on numerous occasions, family members fighting over what they will "get" when Daddy dies, all the while Daddy is over there in the bed heavily sedated and on life-support devices.
A dying patient's family, can
Do more harm than good, I assure you, man,
While contesting the contents of his will
They're hovering closer for the kill.
They may be harboring hidden guilt
About the time the milk was spilt,
Then clutch at every thread of life
And claim it's for his loving wife.
When life-support, becomes death denial
He feels like he's been put on trial,
He wonders what his crime must be
The poor fool had a family!
(1992)
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