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Originally Posted by Hugh
So are you trying to say that if someone in bed dying of a terminal illness utters racist, sexist, and other offensive phrases, it should be illegal to disagree with them?
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Well, extremities can and do happen. I'd say yes as the process of knowing you are going to die must be extremely difficult to cope with mentally. In addition, they may be exhausted, in pain or hallucinating both audibly and visually and not know what they are saying.
In short, as someone is dying they should be cut a bit of slack as it wouldn't be the time or the place to enter into a political discussion!!
There have been cases where people in pain (not terminally ill) who have sworn and uttered racist comments. To their credit, the black members of staff remained professional and courteous throughout. Their wish to be professional at all times overrode any personal feelings and, after all, they couldn't be sure their patient wasn't also suffering from a psychotic illness or had something like Tourettes syndrome.