Life or death, sometimes, it’s, just not easy to decide one bit! From the Front Page Sections, translated…
The Chinese romance novelist, Chiung Yao, not willing to see her husband intubate, I can connect with it too well! Before my father died, he’d clearly told us, that he didn’t want to be intubated. Three years ago, my father had a stroke and became paralyzed, and he had an infection while in the hospital, contracted pneumonia, back then, as the hospital resuscitated him, they’d suggested intubation, so my father can breathe more easily. The three of us brothers, after discussing it, our situation was like the romance writer, Chiung Yao’s, I was for the intubation, while my brothers were, against it, in the end, I’d caved. Because my father told us, that he didn’t want it, and, after the tracheotomy, a tube was placed into him, so he can breathe more easily, there’s, no difference compared to intubation.
would you want to have this done to you on the verge of dying, so you can, live longer??? Not my diagram…
“The Teenage Psychic” is a widely watched series recently, and if the psychic spoke on my father’s behalf, and we’d asked him, if he was in agreeance of not being intubated three years ago, I’m sure, that he would approve of how we’d decided for him.
I’d thought, that the life education cases pushed forth in this country is only focused on life or death, it’d not given us something to go by when we’re faced with the difficulties of making the choices. My brothers’ information all came from the medical world, and, there are, two polarized beliefs that were expected, whether or not to intubate my father, was only to relieve his stresses for the time being. And yet, we’d not gotten consent from our father, and we’d not gotten the supports we’d needed, from the medical professionals when we’d made the choice.
I would recommend, that the government can set up a survey on the willingness to be intubated at the hospital, to have the patient make her/his own choices, allowing for , allowing for one chance to change one’s mind per year, and, send the survey results to the Department of Health & Sanitations to set up a file, and this can help the families decide, to have something to refer to when the time comes.
So, this, is still, on the issues of right to life and right to die, and, we must think on behalf of the loved ones, would s/he want to live without ANY quality of life? Or, are we, killing her/him faster, by not giving her/him enough nutrients? And, there’s still, NO right or wrong answer to this, it’s just that we all have our separate considerations, and, when it comes to the people we loved, we may not be able to make the calls as easily as if we were, seeing someone else’s case come to light…