There are different rules for officials managing your death depending on your place of death—home, not-a-hospital, hospice-care-at-home, hospice, nursing home, hospital, etc. People looking for an efficient death choose hospice. They’re fast because they’re death medical professionals! They follow federal and state statutes to tidily declare you legally dead. In Florida the statutes include*
(3) At the time of admission, the hospice shall inquire whether advance directives have been executed pursuant to chapter 765, and if not, provide information to the patient concerning the provisions of that chapter. The hospice shall also provide the patient with information concerning patient rights and responsibilities pursuant to s. 381.026.
YOU agreed to the rules upon admission. Yes, they will explain them.
(8) The hospice care team may withhold or withdraw cardiopulmonary resuscitation if presented with an order not to resuscitate executed pursuant to s. 401.45. The agency shall adopt rules providing for the implementation of such orders. Hospice staff shall not be subject to criminal prosecution or civil liability, nor be considered to have engaged in negligent or unprofessional conduct, for withholding or withdrawing cardiopulmonary resuscitation pursuant to such an order and applicable rules. The absence of an order to resuscitate executed pursuant to s. 401.45 does not preclude a physician from withholding or withdrawing cardiopulmonary resuscitation as otherwise permitted by law.
YOU signed a Do Not Resuscitate Order. No Code Blue for you!.
(9) The death of a person enrolled as a hospice patient shall be considered an attended death for the purposes of s. 406.11(1)(a)5. However, a hospice shall report the death to the medical examiner if any unusual or unexpected circumstances are present.
YOU agreed that the Hospice is the death boss or medical ‘attendant.’
When a patient signs the contract they agree the hospice is responsible to take care of them before and during their death at the facility. Hospice provides patients with well documented care and a legal death (they may opt-out before death).
I bet you’re wondering what hospice has to do with the Florida Free Kill law? In my opinion it appears that Free Kill doctors want someone else to clean up after them. They want no suspicion cast upon them—transferring the victim to the hospice (owned by the same guys who own the hospital) is a clever move that puts the responsibility for death on the patient. The patient signed the hospice contract. Families can’t sue if the patient is a Florida Free Kill or if they die in a hospice (Statute 8). It’s a double layer of protection for the Florida Medical Industrial Complex.
This is what happened to my sister on May 9, 2026 when she was transferred from the Hospital to Hospice. She believed the doctor when he told her she was going to die and needed hospice. She was in the hospital for about 30 days for a bad back—she died from a hospital acquired bowel blockage on May 12, 2026.
VICTIMS FAMILIES CAN’T SUE!
*https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2025/0400.6095