End of Life depate.

Rather then suffer the slow progress of cancer or dementia the government offers to pay for the medication to help you legally end your life and stop the suffering. Sounds so good doesn't it. They care about your suffering.... your pain. You. And who wants to suffer.

Then take it a step further like the Oregon case. The woman's cancer had returned. There was a chemo that could help her. But Oregon has a assisted suicide law. On the Books. And she was denied chemo treatment. However..... she was not denied medication to end her life.

The Netherlands has had assisted suicide for 2 decades. Good country to watch and see how it actually goes down. Its what Oregon used as a role model. It turns out a quarter of the doctors admit to ending patients life's without the patient asking for it. Some patients were made to feel like a burden on their family. One wife told her ill elderly husband to either end his life with assisted suicide or she would put him in a nursing home. The doctor wrote the script. Even knowing the patient had been coerced. One doctor gave his patient the script without her knowledge because she only had about 4 weeks anyway!

Makes you nervous about getting any scripts from your doctor doesn't it? I remember the last few weeks and days before my in-law's died when I cared for them. We said things to each other in those last days that I will cherish forever. Many families use this time to come to terms with things in the past they wanted to be forgiven for or forgive. Many need this time to say goodbye to a loved one they won't see again.

When you take it out of an individuals hand. Make it a law, put in on the books the choice is taken away from the individual. A premie, born as 6 months gestation. The cost will be extremely high to keep the baby alive. There is no guarantee the child won't have birth defects. A law would make it OK to give it right to life care, against the parents wishes. And maybe will deny the cost of keeping the child alive.

A woman asked President Obama. My mother at 100 needed a pacemaker. She is active and mentally alert. With the pacemaker she is alive today at 105. And then she asked this man, who has no medical training, if her mother would still get it with this new health care reform.





As a nurse I believe in giving patient's as much medicine as they can get to end their pain when they are dying from a terminal disease. I believe in comfort care. I also don't always agree with doing dialysis or surgeries on patients when they aren't going to benefit from it in their quality of life. But. I believe that it is the patients right to make that decision. And they are not always given an informed talk about the benefits of doing it either way. Because finding someone who is truly impartial I think would be almost impossible. Like your insurance company approving a $50.00 dollar end of life pill as opposed to a $4000.00 dollar chemo treatment.

And I think it should be your choice because. Some 100 year old people have 5 more happy years. Some premature babies might grow up and find the cure for diabetes. And some cancer patients win the Tour De France , not by winning it...... but by being given the choice to live and being there to race.