We know smoking impedes healing and causes more problems. The guy has been smoking most of his life since about 10 years old. He cannot get around on his own right now. He has dialysis 3 times a week, lost part of both feet, plaques on the arteries, and cuts that easily get infected and do not heal well. Would you get him smokes if he were your family member?
As a child i always went for my parents cigarettes. Of course I would get the guy his cigs.
Of course! The withdrawal is hard enough for an able bodied person. Why put this guy through even more torture if he wants to smoke. As a family member I would consider his welfare more important than my personal stance.
Hell yes. He's got enough misery as it is, regardless of how his habit began. Let him have this one thing. I think if you're sooooo messed up already it's YOUR BODY to do with as you choose! Not anyone else's.
This is a body autonomy issue.
I went through this with my late husband.... carefully tried to get him to think about quitting while he was, in fact, dying. Got him a script for Chantix , which he never touched, cut down to damn near quit myself to help inspire him. Then it became clear to me all my efforts were stressful to him, not my goal to STRESS HIM OUT, so in the last 3 months of his life I shut up about it altogether, altho I NEVER denied him his "binkies", not once.
If he had wanted to get piss drunk he could have. That was the one thing he quit cold turkey after having been Dx'd with a brain met. He was TERRIFIED of losing his mind. A fantastic mind he took for granted for too much of his life.
No, I'd probably buy a pack for someone to smoke in his/her last moments, but not to hasten those moments.
You said it so much better than I did in my verbose way.