text: Fast forward 40 years, AnonAJ, 
  
  beginning in 2012 10,000 a day began turning 65. The CDC's State of Health in America 2004 listed existing shortages of beds in nursing homes, hospitals, hospice centers and gerontologists. Then, the shortage of long term care beds within the environs of dearly beloved's parish has people disconnected from their parish, and their local families -- going where the bed is.Coming is the fight over when is someone dead or only dying in slow motion x 10,000 + per day.
  It took 40+ years to convince parish folks that it was ok to receive communion from a lay person in church, at home or in hospital.  Then there is the priest will check the books before answering a Viaticum call, by necessity! Who is going to explain why families 1, families 2, or even 3 have nothing to say about a Funeral Mass and nor burial in a Catholic cemetery.
  
  The nuances of a Christian burial when taken  x 10,000+  may be impossible to be met, even when sought. Our lives are messy now.