[darepublic]

My dad was severely disabled and in a good care home (after joining a wait list and having his sister as his advocate) for some years when part of his insurance ran out, requiring me and a sibling to begin paying part of the monthly bill. Shortly afterward the nurses in the home sent him to the hospital where I went to pay him a visit. This happened somewhat regularly, he would be temporarily sent to a hospital after an incident and then sent back to the care home. He seemed normal enough to me, and in fairly good spirits. But this time he did not get sent back to the home, instead the hospital called me and said my dad was in a life threatening condition and might die shortly. I went to the hospital again and visited with him and he seemed more tired but still not too different from himself. But the nurses and doctor nevertheless asserted that he was close to death. We ultimately agreed to put him in palliative care where he soon passed away. Looking back I sometimes feel that I implicitly agreed to euthanize my dad. And that if he were still fully insured that he would have been sent back to the care home as normal. His life at the time was painful no doubt but the more I think of it the more I feel like this incident was a contrivance to clear his room for the next guest who had insurance. I had no clue of the legal going ons around euthanasia at the time, my thoughts on this are not effected by any of that. It may have been more humane to euthanize my dad from some perspective as well. But the real trigger to his demise was perhaps simply the hospital's knowledge of his financial situation, as communicated to them by his care home.