Your dear friend?!
Question: Your dear friend!?
A dear friend is in agony and wants you to help him/her to die!. Would you!?
I was put in that situation about 3 yrs!. ago, but I did not have to go through with the situation, her husband made the decisions, but I felt good knowing she trusted me enough to ask me something like that!.
I do not think I could have gone through with it,!.
And yes, he took her off life support!.
But he did it so he did not have to let her go through any more pain, she had beast cancer and chemo had bad side effects for her!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I was put in that situation about 3 yrs!. ago, but I did not have to go through with the situation, her husband made the decisions, but I felt good knowing she trusted me enough to ask me something like that!.
I do not think I could have gone through with it,!.
And yes, he took her off life support!.
But he did it so he did not have to let her go through any more pain, she had beast cancer and chemo had bad side effects for her!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
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I believe that terminally ill people should be allowed to end their lives at a time of their choosing and to die with dignity rather than suffer a painful and prolonged death!.
Often they require help to do this and assisted suicide is against the law in most countries!.
I consider it an act of compassion and I believe it should be legal!. It could not be abused if the ill person had made their wishes clear!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Often they require help to do this and assisted suicide is against the law in most countries!.
I consider it an act of compassion and I believe it should be legal!. It could not be abused if the ill person had made their wishes clear!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
It depends on the agony!. Some people can handle it better than other like I know right now if I was paralyzed I could not handle it I am so self dependent and hate having to get help from anyone and I have quit sports when I take a break from them and I start playing again and I suck!. And just knowing me I would not want to live paralyzed!. So really it depends on the friend!. My best friend for example is a Marine and we have been friends since 2nd grade we are now both 21!. Any sort of agony being on life support if the decision was left to me I would pull the plug!. because i knwo that isn't living!. Life support to me is being dead but the body still functioning with help!. So that is not living and my friend would not want to live like that and i would expect him to do the same but neither one of us is afraid of death!. So really it depends on the person but if all hope is lost its better to jsut legt go and move on!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
im not in your or his shoes!. before i lost my husband to brain cancer!. when he was in his right mind he talked to the doctors told them his wishes "do not bring me back"!.there was pain meds given to help!.i myself would not be able to pull the plug!.i was thankfull he talked about it long before and talked to his doctors on whom took action or no action!.i also have my wishes wrote and if something was to happen to be given to doctorsWww@Answer-Health@Com
well if its really needed to help for from pain, you can thats MERCY KILLING!. i advise you to do it!.its for her!. you will waste money, no offense, in her chemo if she gets worse of feel more painful!.
good luck!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
good luck!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
maybe depending on how bad the situation is!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
personally i wouldnt!.!. this is because i dont want to go to jail !!Www@Answer-Health@Com
I at that point would've stopped being her friend if she's thinking of !.Www@Answer-Health@Com
no way, give them reasons to liveWww@Answer-Health@Com
This scenario does not sound quite like what should have happened!. A patient who is terminally ill such as your friend should have had an Advance Directive which is a living will that does not allow Life Support or any other extreme means (such as CPR) to keep her alive!. One of the reasons for an Advance Directive is to prevent the type of thing that happened to your friend from happening !. !. she should not have been in agony !. !. she should have been under hospice care or palliative care so that she would remain pain free!. It sounds more like her choices and those of her husband were out of line with current medical recommendations!. I am sorry that this happened to her !. !. it is too bad that her oncologist who must have had experience did not recommend an Advance Directive so that she never would have been in this situation!.
My son had an Advanced Directive and was able to avoid going to ICU and stayed on a regular pediatric floor!. He was kept comfortable and was up walking around the unit most of the time he was there!. We finally came home on hospice!. He had a continuous pain pump that he controlled with a bolus when needed!. He was also up most of the time at home!. Quite frankly !. !. I am wondering if the request your friend was making was not from pain but from anxiety or anticipation of the dying process!. My son was not in any pain, but sometimes was frustrated that he was still here and had not left the world yet!. Dying has its own timeframe that no one can predict!. Patients who know they are dying sometimes just want it to hurry up because of the anticipation !. !. but no one can control the moment when death will happen!.
Sorry about your friend!. Dying is a hard journey, especially for those left behind!. If her death is still bothering you try to seek out grief counseling !. !.it sounds like you feel some amount of guilt for what 'didn't happen' !. !. so you might need to talk it out!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
My son had an Advanced Directive and was able to avoid going to ICU and stayed on a regular pediatric floor!. He was kept comfortable and was up walking around the unit most of the time he was there!. We finally came home on hospice!. He had a continuous pain pump that he controlled with a bolus when needed!. He was also up most of the time at home!. Quite frankly !. !. I am wondering if the request your friend was making was not from pain but from anxiety or anticipation of the dying process!. My son was not in any pain, but sometimes was frustrated that he was still here and had not left the world yet!. Dying has its own timeframe that no one can predict!. Patients who know they are dying sometimes just want it to hurry up because of the anticipation !. !. but no one can control the moment when death will happen!.
Sorry about your friend!. Dying is a hard journey, especially for those left behind!. If her death is still bothering you try to seek out grief counseling !. !.it sounds like you feel some amount of guilt for what 'didn't happen' !. !. so you might need to talk it out!.Www@Answer-Health@Com