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Respond to two postings by explaining your agreement, disagreement, or partial agreement with posting on death, dying, or grieving. Response postings are determined to be of substance by containing information that supplements, contradicts, questions, or furthers discussion on the topic. Your response may engage your classmate’s claim or interpretation of the text. You may support your responses with explanation, a text from the module, or examples from your own experience or observation. Please be respectful of others opinions and tactful in your responses.
1. “Dying with dignity”, this is my claim. I feel most people would want this more than anything if they knew everything and everyone would be take care of when they are gone. I feel like the doctor in the web article “How Doctors Die” makes a great point by saying how doctors “know enough about modern medicine to know its limits.” They are trained professionals and have much technological advancement at their disposal, but still chose not to use it. Instead they chose to go home and use the time they have to prepare not only themselves, but prepare their family. They are able to get their finances in order to make it easier on their family, so they may grieve their loss without some of the financial worries that most of us have to tend too. I have lost one of my own children at a very young age. She was diagnosed with a genetic blood disorder. At the time of her diagnosis there were no known treatments that were standard practice. They were trying bone marrow transplants. We, my husband and I, chose to try anything possible to save our daughter. At the time we felt this was most important. She underwent chemotherapy, radiation and many other tests. One week after transplant she was placed on life support and within a month she would have a daily fight to have enough clotting factors to keep her from bleeding internally. The doctors informed us the transplant did not take and she was in fact bleeding internally and there was not much they could do to cure her. They could prolong her life, but only for a short time. It was at that point, watching her struggle that we chose to let her die with dignity. This was fourteen years ago this past Christmas. I feel this decision was easier for me than it was for my husband. I had worked in a long-term care facility for many years and was exposed to families disagreeing on treatments for the care of a dying family member. While some family members felt they needed to make sure everything was done to prolong their dying family members life, others were ready to let them go and end any suffering they may be experiencing. These days more people have advanced directives that clearly state what their wishes are if the need for a decision arises. I feel this is very important and I have made my wishes well known with my children and family. I want to die with dignity.
2. From a healthcare professional standpoint, I believe the most important point is to understand the wishes of the patient and their families, as to whether they want to prolong a life. I believe that it is the duty of the physician to establish the facts about the patient to those involved, with the prognosis being made as clear as possible. The article “How Doctors Die” states a very interesting claim showing that most doctors do not contest as much as other Americans when facing death, which is more to the fact that their professional backgrounds dictate their somewhat pragmatist decision making. The author makes it clear his intentions, let me go when faced with a debilitating condition and hopefully peacefully.
I am personally wrestling with this decision mainly because that most families find it difficult to get to this decision as due to the fact that it is human nature to want to keep our loved ones around for as long as possible. But I want to think that it should be a no brainer to let nature take its course as a lot of the procedures used to keep these patients alive take a lot of resources that may take away from other patients. From an economic point of viewpoint, quite an extraordinary amount of money spent to postpone the inevitable. I have seen this personally with a close relative and from my own viewpoint I would rather die my own means but not kept alive by artificial means! It is a rather hard subject to deal with though and I don’t think there are any incorrect answers to this.
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