How to leave the world with dignity? Do not end up in the ICU full of tubes, refused to overmedication
People in serious illness, family members in the conditions allow the situation will try everything possible, with advanced equipment, expensive drugs should be used to go all out to leave their most beloved people, this is no excuse, the rapid development of science and medical technology is to serve people to save the precious life of the treatment of the case of effective doctors and families The doctor and the family work together to give the patient a better future.
But if you know that the treatment is not effective, with a ventilator, pacemaker and other equipment to maintain the patient's life, a tube lying in the hospital bed loved ones, loved ones every day of survival is suffering, so really love him?
Three core principles of palliative care in the United Kingdom:
1. Recognize that death is a normal process;
2. Neither accelerate nor delay death;
3. Provide relief from the pain and discomfort of dying. It can also be understood as what we often refer to as ? Hospice care?
Yet the reality before us is in whose hands does the right to reject overmedication and adopt a policy of hospice care and treatment lie.
Generally speaking, when the patient is awake and alive, with complete self-awareness and clear self-determination, the patient has the option to make a will in advance, deciding what kind of treatment he or she chooses to receive at the time of death, and if this has not been done before, the decision rests with the family after the sudden onset of the disease.
And China is a civilization with Confucianism and morality inherited for thousands of years of excess, to send their loved ones to leave in a decent manner is no one is willing to carry the moral yoke.
The most reasonable is to do their own will in advance, and finally embrace the world (taken from the netizen):
One, no matter what I had a serious illness, such as stomach cancer, esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer and other types of cancer, resolutely not to move the major surgery, including the cost of injury to the body of the first aid or therapeutic measures, such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy, craniectomy, thoracotomy, pneumonectomy, electroconvulsive shock, Yekke membrane and so on!
Second, if I lose the ability to swallow, it is the same as losing the joy of eating, no matter what the circumstances, absolutely can not be inserted into the "nasogastric tube".
Three, no matter what the circumstances, do not insert all kinds of life-sustaining tubes, such as urinary catheters, breathing tubes, etc., into my body.
Let me be in charge when I can be in charge, but if I can't be in charge, please respect me by doing what I tell you to do. Let my last journey in life be dignified.