PBS in a scene from an upcoming PBS documentary, Marthe Laureville, 86, is family moments after her separately consoled doctors by a ventilator at Mount Sinai Medical Center.
I would really appreciate if a lot people tuned air documentary "Facing death," a one-hour "Frontline" on PBS Tuesday to see (check your local listings, or see it online 9 or 10 am in most places). I know that won't happen.so many people still turn from the Thema.Aber half a zillion would be good to.
This prudent view of dying patients, surrounded by their families confused and conflict in the intensive care unit at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, position avoids carefully to what euphemistically we have come to call end-of-life care.
Instead it offers intimate portraits of patients and families, dealing with the difficult decisions about how much treatment too much succeeded if gloomy ist.In explain the forecast the meantime, their doctors, were the viewers that medical advances judgments even harder as you always did it.
A doctor "says"It certainly his life will extend,"during a bedside chat with sick mother of a patient who has to decide whether your should take adult son, terminally ill and apparently comatose, operation.""The question is it his life will improve?"
In the meantime get viewers a close-up of what die as is in a modern I.C.U nest of I.V. bags and lines, breathing tubes on patient faces, the glowing monitors glued - all in small, space free from any other signs of humanity - each hellish vision of high-tech die verstärken.Noch we meet some patients who want to fight for every additional day.
Most of these people - and bless and their families to allow producers Miri Navasky and Karen O'Connor with respect to document their last weeks and hours - aren't older people, as it happens.Include a 47-year-old stroke victims and a 53-year-old with leukemia; the decision must be even more embarrassing if a loved by rights, you should have to live decades.
The only senior has developed a woman with advanced dementia, pneumonia, is 86 and non-responsive - even their two daughters (a doctor, a nurse) are so disagreed about whether a tracheotomy that the family to authorize, has a literal vote.
We should not be surprised by such conflict, I suppose: you look shared opinion that If we have the die post bloom.
Just in this month, new age readers SYD from Arizona announced, "I may realize after I mean family no longer never invasive and terrible medical interventions."SLC in Pennsylvania commented "Acceptance of death is incredibly brave."TD in West Virginia countered, "compliments the courage of people really kind of euthanize your page 'love' sick makes me."
And York in New York blasted us all for our "bizarre obsession with death".
But I don't think it's particularly bizarre if we, in the 80s and 90s feel responsible for the people to decide how and where and when you will die or to look at - talk about - as to honour to facilitate your wishes and their passages as best we can.
"In favour of death" can help, to prepare ourselves for it.
Paula span is the author of "when the time comes: families with aging parents share your struggles and solutions."
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