Originally Posted by
Trumpster
I know all about hospice care because my mother was in hospice care at home. Her diagnosis was hydrocephalus, otherwise known as fluid pressure on the brain, but other than that she was in good health. Her first symptom was difficulty walking and eventually she was confined to bed. She was always in good spirits and never complained. Whenever the nurses asked her how she was doing she would say, "good". Near the end she had no appetite and slept for longer periods of time. She died about a day or two before her hospice benefit would have expired.
What does it prove? It proves that everyone's situation is different. Her's was very different than the picture you painted above. My father died before my mother and would have qualified for hospice except there wasn't any hospice facility in our area at that time. He had Alzheimer's and we were taking care of him at home. His situation was also different than the picture you painted because he was not in a "special unit" and not in assisted living or a nursing home. And he could easily have lasted 5 or 6 months in hospice.
The fact still remains that the talk-show hosts didn't bother to give any details because they probably knew nothing about the person's situation, assuming it was a true story. Their goal was to promote the idea that there was a lot of cheating going on with the cause of death and death certificates.
It's a crime to falsify the cause of death on a death certificate. That being the case, if they were sure it was fraudulent, why didn't they report it to the appropriate authorities?