End of life care

A chance to have your say.

The Australian Centre for Health Research is conducting a national survey on public attitudes to end of life care.

See:

http://www.achr.org.au/national-survey-of-public-attitudes-experiences-regarding-end-of-life-care/

I have completed it and was very blunt. It’s something I feel very strongly about having recently lost my better half to cancer and having three recent 'near-end-of-life’ experiences.

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A real topic worthy of thought and discussion but unfortunately most want to avoid talking to the one who is dying about dying

I participated in the questionaire.

Good on you Monika ... so did I.

Can totally understand if others avoid it ... very confronting in many ways but much easier if you have been confronted more than once ... total freak actually for first-timers, easier on death bed but who wants to go there by choice.

For your amusement ... was on death bed on one occasion in ICU and looked up. Got the sh**s because I was pi**ed off that those I was was seeing weren't my Facebook friends and what the bloody hell were they doing there?

:) The joys of strong painkillers + valium. Those drug combos now on my list of 'don't give together'.

RnR can you please explain your  statement re


:) The joys of strong painkillers + valium. Those drug combos now on my list of 'don't give together'.

Thanks

Sorry PlanB ... missed your question, no excuses on my part. I don't react well to Valium (gives me depression symptoms) ... so the combination of myocodeine (I think) and Valium was totally hallucinagenic for me. Mega spaced-out so-to-speak. Not something I ever want to experience again. Quite weird.

 

 

Thanks for the link to such an important survey ... same completed

 

:) Thanks Abby.

There is no joy in pain and suffering for the person or their loved ones ... we should follow Canada's lead with euthanasia.

No matter how I try I get this

 

Thanks Abby

 

The thing that worries me most is the possibility of religious nutters or similar getting in the way of me choosing for my life to end the way I want, when I'm ready.

Sadly, the present federal government contains a lot of such people.

Did anyone see the programme on SBS Sunday night - "How to Die: Simon's choice?" It follows a man who was diagnosed with an aggressive form of Motor Neuron disease and given 2 years to live. What a wonderful story and it goes to show that you can choose the way you want to die. Admittedly he had to go to Switzerland where it is permitted, but it is up to you to eventually press the button to release the formula. He had a wonderful farewell with family and friends and his dear Mother. It was his choice and nobody had the right to tell him that it was wrong.  It is so important to let your family know what you want when the final time arises. I know friends who still haven't made out wills and they are in their 70's. When my husband was in Palliative Care they said if he stops breathing, they do not resusitate and I said he wouldn't want to be. 

Yes I watched that show about Simon, great family and friends and it was good he was able to do what he wanted -- but who can afford such an amount -- ie  going to Switzerlamd  -- at a great cost ---AND the cost of dying 7000 POUNDS  that would be about $14000

That family were quite well off.

Hey Barak, the religious nutters in our federal govt have already stopped loving couples from getting married (and are prepared to cost the tax-payers of this country $50,000,000+ on a Plebiscite while screaming we have a spending problem, just to stop homosexual people from having a choice).

Do you really think they won't interfere with your philosophical stance on our option to choose euthanasia?

Barak

Maybe Just maybe

If more people participated in this discussion and did the questionaire from the Australian Centre for Health Research, things just might change.

 

Sorry, Abby. I think that, unless ALL 75+% Australians, who want VE legislation, are prepared to gather with banners and hooters on Parliament House steps, talking and filling in surveys will not change our current not so liberal minded representatives position.

Just completed the survey.  Canada has seen the light but until the UK does - I fear we won't either.

RIP the 'Liverpool Pathway' I've read. Too much abuse.

And don't you wonder why GETUP is so silent on this subject that affects so many people?

Basically the country's debt is assessed by the size of the population, to be able to repay the world banking & insurance financial institution. 

The world bank operates the country's financial banking system, credit rating & value of Australia's dollar.  Not the government.

The banking & insurance industry does not care about the welfare of the country. 

Country borders, governments & religions are, used as mere pawns, for the world financial banking & insurance industry, to play off each other, to create debt with interest.

Taxes & fees are the only contributors to the government to repay the debt. For this reason the government officals have no incentive to reduce the population size.

Euthanasia does not suit debt repayment figures, since many of the aged own our homes. So to keep us suffering in pain & without the dignity of euthanasia increases the chances of the government &/or financial institutions taking our homes over, as we go into debt in retirement homes & hospitals to die.

I've explained to my daughter & son ''if I become incontinent or less able to walk or talk.  To sell my home quickly rather than put me in a retirement home.  That type of care is not covered by my private health insurance even though I've paid it for over 39 years.''  I've given both my children copies of my Will. I've lived enough and I believe I have the right to say when & how I want to die. 

Cheers to all

 

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