Some people live their whole life, they experience all the highs and lows a life can bring. These highs and lows can be very severe, births and deaths of all sorts. They live, only to be forgotten as their lives fade away. They sit and wait for death, sometimes welcoming it, sometimes not. They are thrown into homes with ignorant, uneducated, uncaring people who treat them as if they are unappealing pieces of furniture or irritating children they hate to have to deal with. The lucid ones understand, see it happening, and have to deal with the fact that they have been cast away. They look into their future and see the loneliness of abandonment and the pain of their diseases as their only companion until death.

The staff at the skilled nursing facilities (odd choice of name, I think) do not care for the patients. They do not feed them, figuratively and many times literally. These patients are going to die eventually, but I wonder what the criminal charge would be for expediting the process? These staff members should be charged.

People die. It's what happens, and much of the time it is a blessing. But is it necessary that the end of their lives be like this?