Which is exactly why palliative "care" should be shut down and its staff prosecuted for negligence and torture, Rhrosty.

Rhrosty,
thank you for the philosphical but I'm more interested in how you managed time, work, care & finances ?
I simply couldn't imagine doing what you did on my pay & whilst going to work. I have great difficulty in working out how I could possibly fit 24/7 care & work into 24 hours. You must surely have had some assistance from someone or some scheme.

No individual, No assistance! Albeit a good garden!
Thanks for the almost microscopic myopic inquisition!
I take it that level of budgeting every last cent, is beyond your abilities?
Moreover I was a part time dad, who never ever forgot birthdays, special occasions, or Christmas, and would often lay-by months ahead, but particularly, if there was a sale or some such.
Outings had to limited to a very simple bush B-B-Q and quality time!
I even bought second hand, at those times, I found far too much month left at the end of the money.
It can be done, if you buy extra, when there are bargains that you need. Salt, baking soda and vinegar, are excellent substitutes for much more costly, and less effective chemicals.
Vinegar, is as good as any softener, when added to the wash water! And Fifty fifty, vinegar and salt, will kill almost anything, along with many weeds.
And trampling, even assisted by crutches/sticks, very early on a cold and frosty morning, works well as broad-leaf weed control. And it helps to keep you warm.
My parents survived the Great Depression and a world war, and knew how to make do, go without, or tie it up with baling wire, just to get the show on the road!
Walking where possible saves on a very limited $10.00 a month rationed fuel bill, and I made the old ford last and last, by being a reasonable bush mechanic.
Albeit, I needed to lay down on a walker, to change tyres, and what have you.
I guess if your heart's in it, almost anything is possible! Except paying a $7.00 surcharge from thin air!
Rhrosty.

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A T. Are you for real?
Palliative care doctors arrested for torture?
Who's torture?
Your's while waiting for your inheritance perhaps?
Eskimos used to strip their, [past their use by date,] oldies, and leave them outside in the cold and snow; to perish!
Are you suggesting we should emulate that level of calloused indifference or patent lack of humanity!
In comparison, an old woman in Scotland, dying from terminal cancer, and with just months to live!
Was given pure addictive heroin, which as a vastly superior palliative care drug, enabled her to live an additional pain free five years, go out, socialize etc!
I mean she made the papers playing golf of all things, and reportedly as happy as Larry, given the additional pain free years.
Think for just a moment, if you can?
Other people's pain and how we react to them, may well be our own test, rather than theirs!?
And indeed, the Scot lived on to see both her daughters married.
I just don't have a problem with her dying as a heroin addict, given it allowed her to live out her natural time, and free from pain; and not spaced out, which is fairly common in other drug therapies.
And I'm in favor of medicinal marijuana, for exactly the same reason!
Luckily for her, you and your very obvious, cruel and calloused indifference, weren't there, with your inflexible attitude/rule book, advocating her forced removal?
Or that she be denied effective real pain relief!
Rhrosty.

Thanks for the almost microscopic myopic inquisition!
Rhrosty,
Well, all I can say to that is that I'm still in the dark as to how anyone other than a rather well off can afford to stay home to provide 24/7 care. Don't get me wrong I'm not against care far from it but you appear to avoid answering or acknowleging that you would have received taxpayer funded assistance. I would think it appropriate to acknowlege such assistance instead of giving the impression you did it it all on your own. That's why I said that I coouldn't imagine to care for someone in my financial circumstances.
I don't mean to criticise if you did receive financial assistance because I'd certainly have to ask for it.