 that is sad but my advice would be to press on to be gracious but persistent and especially if your father is near death do you have any sense of how near death he is is it weeks or months or can they tell it's hard to say the hospice that he just just entered hospice and the nurse that they had spoken with initially said that it could be weeks or months but he also because of the condition of his heart could die of heart attack in his sleep possibly because of the stress of it so it's