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How do you die when taken off life support? |
my dad has cancer, & it's spread all over his body.the machine he's on now, isnt a ventilator yet, it's a machine thats just a mask over his face to help him breathe. He's probably going on life support within the next couple days. We don't think he will be on it long though.. i was wondering when taken off it, how do you die? Do you suffocate to death, or what? Please help I really want/ need to know the life support machine technically breathes for you when your heart cannot do it. When taken off life support, the heart will slow down and stop and the person will slowly pass away OR the heart will begin to beat on its own and everything is fine. if he take the mask off he will probably do suffocate his lungs is too weak. I am very sorry to hear about your father.....he will pass away peacefully he won;t feel a thing.or be in any more pain It sounds like your dad is on a "BiPAP" machine which is basically life support without being "intubated". It's call "non-invasive mechanical ventilation". Your dad can be given medication to help him to "fall asleep", usually morphine. Usually you can not just remove the life support without keeping the patient comfortable. The proper way of doing it is administering high dose of morphine then the life support is being withdrawn. It's hard to think but that's how it works the patient will stop breathing and everything follows. This is being done to shorten the patient's agony. |
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