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Best Place To Die?

Does your religion require that you die in a particular place if you know your days are numbered? Do they require any kinds of ceremonies or rituals both before and after death? Besides this, is there a specific place that a person should go in order to die in peace? Many disagree that hospices are cruel and that family members should have the dying 'loved' on at home. What do you think?

Die Place Best

I would like to die at home, and have my parents die at home also. But sometimes its just not feasible. While I hold no particular religious or cultural beliefs on the matter, I do prefer having relatives die in the comfort of their own home if that is possible. But I know that this cannot happen in all cases, even when you know you are going to die. Sometimes, it is to much of a financial strain to let the person die where you want or they want.

Best Place To Die? Beliefs Religious General

I understand someone wanting to die at home, but I am not sure how I would feel about that home once my loved one had died in it. Perhaps it would leave me with bad memories. I know if the death is unexpected, I wouldn't want to come home and find my loved one dead. When someone is dying from a chronic/terminal illness, it is a bit different.

Die Place Best

There is no religious or cultural belief that I have which will determine where I die if my death were to be unexpected. I would prefer to die in my own home with my loved ones close to me. I would especially want my children to be close at hand. I am torn as to whether I would prefer to have my wife die before me or after. It is not something I think about too much, but it has crossed my mind more than once. On the one hand, my selfish side wants my wife to be my side when I die. On the other hand, I would not want her to have to mourn my loss. My aunt worked at a hospice and I visited them frequently, and I don't see them as being inhumane. They are more humane to me than a nursing home or home for the elderly. If my being at home was too much of a strain for my loved ones, then I would not expect them to suffer like that and would accept being taken to a hospice or equivalent.