Stop wasting fuel. You do not need to boil water for 5 minutes, 10 minutes, double for high altitude, whatever else youâve heard, etc. If you have a thermometer, you donât even have to wait until the water begins to boil for safe drinking waterâ¦.
How long you can get hospice care. Hospice care is for people with a life expectancy of 6 months or less (if the illness runs its normal course). If you live longer than 6 months, you can still get hospice care, as long as the hospice medical director or other hospice doctor recertifies that youâre terminally ill. 1  You can get hospice care for two 90-day benefit periods, followed by an unlimited number of 60-day benefit periods.
I realize this is an older post but wanted to put some better information. Patients in active dying can go usually 1-2 weeks with food or water. It takes little to no food or water to sustain them and the body will cannibalize existing fluids in the tissues. Our hospice nurse the longest she had seen was 32 days because all that was functioning was heart and lungs. My father in law is in hospice now, on day 12 with no food or water. Hospice will not administer IV's because it will flood the lungs and cause death faster, food causes cramping in the bowels and a lot of pain. He's not starving, he just sleeps deeper and longer every day.