New Medicare Rule Authorizes ‘End-of-Life’ Consultations
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Agreed. If you are of sound mind. have a terminal disease you should be able end your life with dignity.
Think about Alzheimer's. You end up with no mind at all. Your motor and cognitive ability slowly decline until you don't know anyone, you don't know where you are, you can't walk, you can't eat and eventually you can't breathe. You slowly forget how to do it all. The whole process takes 7+ YEARS.
In the mean time your spouse and children are dealing with you not knowing them, with you loosing control of bodily function, your emotional stability goes haywire so you yell, cuss, are suspicious and have hallucinations.
In the mean time doctors are prescribing pills, special care units that are locked down, meds to keep you sedated because if you become violent you may get kicked out of the special care unit.
Your brain pretty much turns to jello, you drool and defecate on your self daily.
Your family can only cry and hope insurance or the money don't run out.
Take a "sound mind" out of the picture. As hard as it is to face, we just need to let some people die.
Think about Alzheimer's. You end up with no mind at all. Your motor and cognitive ability slowly decline until you don't know anyone, you don't know where you are, you can't walk, you can't eat and eventually you can't breathe. You slowly forget how to do it all. The whole process takes 7+ YEARS.
In the mean time your spouse and children are dealing with you not knowing them, with you loosing control of bodily function, your emotional stability goes haywire so you yell, cuss, are suspicious and have hallucinations.
In the mean time doctors are prescribing pills, special care units that are locked down, meds to keep you sedated because if you become violent you may get kicked out of the special care unit.
Your brain pretty much turns to jello, you drool and defecate on your self daily.
Your family can only cry and hope insurance or the money don't run out.
Take a "sound mind" out of the picture. As hard as it is to face, we just need to let some people die.
This is exactly what I'm afraid of. If it's just a physical illness I could figure out how to take care of that myself. But some sort of dementia? I would need some help. My mother lived into her 90's with no dementia, so I hope that's a positive sign for my aging prognosis, but it still scares the bejeebus out of me.
As someone working in nursing homes and watching people suffer, develop bedsores, inability to eat without a tube in their stomach, etc, etc, I am happy we are finally evolving on this issue. If I had a dollar for every person who has said to me over the last 18 years "I just want God to take me" I would be rich.
Nothing is stopping them from jumping out of a window.
I would just move to Oregon. It's only about an hour from here and they allow you to die with dignity.
I know two people who did this. It's the most humane thing anyone can do. Keeping people alive only to prolong their pain and misery is just horrible. No one should have to go through this. This is a step in the right direction.
Get a living will. I have one. Plus let your whole family know what you think. If I will have quality of life I chose to stay alive. When it goes to no more quality then its time to pull the plug!!! Give me drugs and let me go peacefully!!! If not give me a nice drug cocktail I can take at home and die on my own terms!!
Good luck with that. Unless you catch the window/time period, in which hospice will take you, you will suffer. At least that's been my experience.
Slippery slope that should proceed with caution. Create one justification to end someone's life and another reason will rear its ugly head. It starts with those terminally ill or severe dementia. It then moves onto other less severe physical or mental conditions. At some point those who deal out death begin to loose sight of the value of life. This is a stepping stone to the return of the eugenics movement.
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Also most are too weak to even get out of bed by themselves at that point.
