Ribo speaks out on turkey drippings

I believe the accepted practice for some 30+ years now is to prepare the stuffing on the side because it's more hygienic. The thought was that raw meat juices continuously dripped onto stuffing inside the turkey, for hours, and interior temperatures never got hot enough to kill the germs nesting in this warm wet place in the interior.
Detractors would say the stuffing never got the same rich flavor without the meat juices. The experts consider it a safe compromise to put the stuffing in the turkey interior near the end of the turkey baking process, when most of the juices no longer drip. You miss out on much meat dripping flavor but you get some of it.
(My mother would no longer allow early-stuffed turkey for us after a point - I think in the early to mid 1970s. She makes it a priority to be well-read on hygiene issues.)
I am sorry your dad had the similar end to my father's, that must have looked sad to others - choosing not nourishing himself because there was no point or hope for a meaningful life.
My dad kept asking for mercy killing in the end - he even asked my brothers to bring in a gun into his hospital room (yeah, right, dad, they said! We would never, could never!) in his last month - his best chance was a morphine drip when things looked terminal upon his doctor's discernment. That's the choice he ended up going with; that's why he went into an oncology unit his last week - probably so his doctor could administer a morphine drip more "easily".
A procedure in his near future that my father would have had to consent to, sooner rather than later, was the removal of his legs due to the onsetting of gangrene from diabetes - his legs were losing circulation, toes turning grey and feet turning blue - his legs were dying. A little Napoleon like my father who accomplished so much by his own sheer willpower would have never put up with the loss of his legs.
These days I no longer channel nice thoughts of anyone except of my kids. I feel all hope is lost for me, but I can still be a help to the up-and-coming generation for a while in not fighting against the keeping alive of my carcass a while longer.
This post ©reated by Ribonuff on November 17, 2007. Happy birthday to the former Jennifer "Jenna" Brown of Norwalk, Connecticut, more recently of San Francisco, best friend of my early to middle childhood. I miss you, girl, and hope you are living a blessed life filled with much love and interesting things and people and perhaps also beloved pets and pet causes.