Deathbed Promises
We need to look at the promises made, evaluate them as to: can it be done, should it be done, and am I willing to do it?
We need to look at the promises made, evaluate them as to: can it be done, should it be done, and am I willing to do it?
I believe that everyone has the right to decide how they will live and how they will die. There are people that no matter the disease will want to have...
We must talk about end of life issues NOW while we are healthy, and our thoughts are not clouded with fear. Right now when emotions don’t affect our thinking. When we can...
For us it is very difficult to see our loved one struggling. Most of us are at the bedside of someone who is dying because we are emotionally involved. We...
What do I personally think? If we want to die, VSED is a way of having total control. It is not illegal. It doesn’t involve others (which is illegal). It...
...There is no perfect relationship. There are good times and difficult times. Sometimes the difficulty we have with the person that is dying keeps us from being at the bedside....
If we did not relate to praying in living then we will not necessarily relate now. We die the way we have lived. We don’t change who we are just...
Dear Barbara, Will you talk about a chemical straight jacket at end of life? My mother is a dementia patient in a memory unit. Hospice now. They are giving increased...
The congestion that occurs before death will depend upon how hydrated ordehydrated a person is. The more fluids in their body, the more congestion.Sometimes changing their position (laying them on...
Sometimes when we think that others think we are not doing enough, it may actually be us thinking that the others are not doing enough. When the worker bee caregiver...
Death for those who work in end of life is not failureor the enemy. It is the ending of the work we do. Our satisfaction in thedeath of a patient...
If she has had no water of any kind for 16 days I would expect her to die at anytime--maybe before I write this.