Interesting, isn't it. If we allowed our animals to suffer, we'd be prosecuted for cruelty and negligence. HUman beings? Nope, they don't get a choice.
My cat's vet has very strong feelings about this issue, since he saw both his parents through to the end via hospice care. He said we treat animals better than humans.
We do. When I mentioned that to one of our vets, they became very uncomfortable. It's true, too. Our animals have to be euthanised when quality of life is gone. People? Nope: they can choke on their own vomit/fluids/anything. It's almost as if someone is profiting from keeping people alive.
As a teenager, I had to watch my grandfather slowly fade from his illness and how less and less of him as a person was left. I had already said goodbye to the person he once was several months before his death.
it was all so undignified
and I have a very clear position on the subject since then. The subject has been discussed up and down in Germany for years, but nothing will ever change. ... -.-
Given what I saw my mother-in-law go through (and she absolutely loved your father's work, it was one of the few things she did remember after awhile) I cannot say enough how sorry I am that it was like this.
I saw Terry’s documentary at a film festival and heard him speak on it.
Sadly in the years since his death, this country has become incredibly hostile toward disabled people. We are not safe.
We need an assisted dying law. But we need assisted LIVING too. I know Terry would have spoken up for us. 💔
My Mum was an advocate of Death With Dignity, and I fought tooth and nail to give my Dad the same. There's a massive difference between 'Living' and 'Existing'. All my love for the Good Fight...
I hope I'm wrong, but I have this horrible feeling that the Leadbetter bill is going to fail, simply because weak-kneed MPs will have been besieged by emails & phone calls from the same loud, angry, but SMALL, group of fanatics.
I’m also amazed at the comments that it is being ‘rushed’ through. I remember a bill was voted down not long after dad died. This has been debated for a decade. If not longer.
It's desperation, those who are opposed know this time there's a real chance it could pass. Even if it gets stuck in the Lords or bogged down in the courts, getting through the Commons would be a huge blow to the opposition. Once this kind of thing becomes law, it's hard to reel it back in.
No one should ever have to suffer the long drawn out agonising death my husband and mother in law suffered. When pain breaks through the heavy sedation and the doctors can do no more.
I would rather not be a gibbering slobbering lump sat in my own bodily waste having to be fed, It's not a life.
Rarely the brain goes before the body, the brain is dead but the body doesn't know it.
Put me down, harvest any organs, use my carcass for surgical practice.
Help others have a better life
English is not my native language, so I misspoke. I'm not geriatric myself, I'm a nurse specializing in geriatrics. This means that I work exclusively with elderly people, in a nursing home.
Sorry, I knew what you meant but as a former squaddie & someone used to work with persons with learning difficulties & as a hospital care worker, I have that sort of humour.
I am geriatric though, if I meet you, be gentle with the catheter.🤣
😂😂
Tbh I laughed because we often joke with my husband about it. I always that one day I will care for people older than me (as the retirement age is between 67 & 69 in Germany)
I’ll be kind I swear
I loved the Krankenhaus in the 80's, lovely places with excellent staff.
I was privileged to be in Germany when the wall fell, it was amazing, felt like a gatecrasher at a party but was wonderful to observe.
Won't forget finding a Trabant, dead, outside my barracks in Munster.
So many people note that they had to say goodbye to a loved one years before they actually died. It is not kind or loving to anyone to force a heartbeat beyond when the self is gone.
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I think, I hear him ranting from beyond.
And I never knew the Ebble has otters 🤨
I haven't seen any at my visit in summer, but then again I haven't had any goldfish with me.
Best to keep them well stocked.
it was all so undignified
Sadly in the years since his death, this country has become incredibly hostile toward disabled people. We are not safe.
We need an assisted dying law. But we need assisted LIVING too. I know Terry would have spoken up for us. 💔
Rarely the brain goes before the body, the brain is dead but the body doesn't know it.
Put me down, harvest any organs, use my carcass for surgical practice.
Help others have a better life
I am geriatric though, if I meet you, be gentle with the catheter.🤣
Tbh I laughed because we often joke with my husband about it. I always that one day I will care for people older than me (as the retirement age is between 67 & 69 in Germany)
I’ll be kind I swear
I was privileged to be in Germany when the wall fell, it was amazing, felt like a gatecrasher at a party but was wonderful to observe.
Won't forget finding a Trabant, dead, outside my barracks in Munster.
You said it right.