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Dying.
Everyone thinks that you are supposed to go to the hospital when you are dying as if they are going to like, stop you from dying.
Mostly what they do is make sure that you don't leave anything behind for your kids to inherit as they spend a million dollars a day keeping you a miserable vegetable for a week.
Once that is done the funeral industry shows up to make sure that you dump the rest into buying a worthless box and digging a hole.
When my father died a while back we decided to cremate him. The amount of money they suggested we spend on a casket that was literally going up in smoke was ridiculous.
similar problems in aged care honestly. Many people would rather sign away the equity in their parents' estate to an aged care provider, then actually care for their aging parents in their time of absolute vulnerability.
Do they? I often hear of people wanting to die at home if they have the choice, there is also hospice care. Hospital would only make sense if you have something that might be possible to treat, at least at the point of deciding to go.
Glad to have the NHS though, so there is no cost to worry about. Pretty sure you can get cremated for under ยฃ1k, you don't need to get a gold plated box.
Aren't hospitals mostly free? Or tax payer funded.
Your ID identifies you as Australian, mate. Afaik public hospitals are free / publicly funded in Australia, just as it should be. But that's unfortunately not true for everyone.