The problem with Maynard’s advocacy is that the law cannot revolve around a few privileged individuals and their desire to design what they regard as a good death. The euthanasia movement typically starts by focusing on people with terminal illnesses, but the laws have a history of being expanded to people with disabilities, which deprives disabled people of suicide prevention and exacerbates the systemic oppression that disabled people already face. We can see this happening in Canada already. Better that terminally ill people have to use hospice care to control their symptoms then to open the door to the human rights dumpster fire burning in the country next to us.
My grandfather's been at stage 5 for over a year. He's reaching the end quickly now (which is why I'm watching this to know what to expect, so thanks for this resource) but yeah, can confirm there's lots they can do other than dialysis (we're in Canada). He's 94 so he didn't want it, didn't want to be in a hospital for half the week at his age when it probably wouldn't have extended his life by much, and I think that was a good choice. He was followed closely by a kidney clinic and managed with medications for his electrolytes, anemia etc. It's odd to hear that this sort of management isn't offered widely in the US?? Dialysis makes hospitals more money, I guess :\
what a nice person, it breaks my heart that such a sweet man was taken from this world and his family so soon. He accepted his fate with so much dignity. I wish I had known him. RIP
Why not instead of doing this we provide care that will actually help relieve his pain? We don’t have to end his life. He is not a burden. He is a human. A HUMAN that should be loved and cared for and helped.
I wish that C&C would create some similar material -- whether video or text -- to help people in states that have not yet passed any death-with-dignity legislation share tips for getting the EOL experience they want.
Thank you for this conversation. The documentary deeply touches me and educates me. The series goes a long way in normalizing the conversation. When people in the dying passage share their story, their thoughts and emotions in such a raw way, it is moving and stirring. Each person was unique and one of a kind. I hear you, Serene, IT'S ALL GOOD. Thank you for making the series. I'm delighted about the second season and hope you continue. My sense is that it will make a very big contribution to chipping away at death denial in our culture.
Te entiendo Miguel. Mi papa fallecio de esa horrible enfermedad. Cuando hubiese deseado que mi papa no sufriera tanto. Pero quizas por obra de Dios. En su ultimo dia no tuvo dolor de absolutamente nada. Simplemente me llamaron en la madrugada del dia siguiente a decirme que mi papa habia muerto.
Hi I have been on dialysis for 11 years I have had bad 2 years 3 hart attacks and 4 months a bypass op whitch was very hard on me but getting stronger day by day I still work but I work for myself so after dialysis I generally don't work on times I have to suck it up and do a job or 2 on my dialysis days however it is getting harder for me as lack of energy is a problem for me
i believe i'm in stage 4 chf but my heart specialist took me of carvidol and put me on water pills. i was able after a short time, to live without my oxygen. i still can't exert myself with out feeling nautious and dizzy, but at rest i feel normal.
Thanks Barbara That is a great idea I am going to make sure I have a certain bedroom set up if I need to have a caregiver come live in my home cause I am never going to a nursing home 😍🙏
@@Swimmer1128 yeah the lady in the webinar said that you don't have to be a resident in Washington State and that's the first time I heard that one I know it's Oregon and Vermont but in this webinar she also said Washington and she didn't mention Vermont
That six months or less idea should really change. Many doctors get it wrong they'll tell you you have 5 months to live and many people die within 3 weeks!! Also they should make it longer for people that have Dementia or Alzheimer's etcetera likes give them at least a year or less to live because when they actually are getting close to death then they don't have their faculties or they should let them sign something that says that they can take the medicine even if they don't have their faculties. I'm thinking they should raise it for everybody to like maybe eight months or less to live it plays it safer because of the miscalculations.
So the two witnesses can be like say the notary and say a bank teller? Like it really doesn't matter it could be some stranger that you just bumped into.
Also if you live in a state that doesn't have Medical Aid in dying you can still ask your physician or nurse practitioner way ahead of time if they would recommend you to eye doctor in a state that does do Medical Aid in dying
This organization turned down my lawsuit which would establish MAID in all fifty states. Much better financially to do piecemeal in all 50 states at least for fundraising. I had to file and serve my lawsuit myself. Fortunately, I'm a paralegal.
This organization wouldn't take my right-to-die lawsuit in Pennsylvania, which has already gotten media attention and made more progress in three weeks than this has in ten years.
My mom starts palliative care Tuesday one round of chemo a week and hormone therapy hope it helps she is very anemic and weak oncologist feels benefits will put weight side effects just want her to see me graduate from nursing school
Contrary to @onlinetruth’s claims, The majority of people with disabilities do NOT support assisted suicide! I have spent years moving in disability rights and disability studies circles. Opposition to assisted suicide is deeply ingrained in that community. You can pay for some stupid poll showing the opinions of a small, hand-selected group of people claiming to be disabled and claim that it shows the majority of disabled people support assisted suicide, but that’s just politics; that’s you making up your own narrative.
Really? The medical team of specialists treating me managed to poke a hole thru my heart’s mitral valve during an unnecessary stint procedure in which the dye used compromised my kidneys with a 70% loss of function. I was then diagnosed with diabetes II. Insisting I take 8 prescription drugs, 5 of which listed SHORTNESS OF BREATH AS THE LEADING SIDE EFFECT, they managed to suffocate me for 15 months. The quality of life care I received was outright abusive. I was buried alive. Diagnosed with end stage CHF with a 3 month life left, I was intent on suicide-minute by minute struggle was inhumane . Came home and threw away every Rx in my home. 2 weeks later I took my first deep breath. 2 years later-sill have CHF, but haven’t let another Dr. torture me since. Not afraid to die, very much afraid of the Dr/Pharma monsters out there. HEALTH CARE IN THE U.S. IS CURRENTLY THE BIGGEST INDUSTRY, THE BIGGEST CHIUNK OF OUR GDP. A RACKETEERING-CRIMINALLY RUN MACHINE DIRECTED BY A HOST OF UNCONSCIONABLE MEGA FUNDS. Perhaps we’ll be able to opt for AI run medical treatment-robots beat compromised Dr.s EVERYDAY.
