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i wanna die somewhere like up there
- Mar 15, 2020
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Having worked with the elderly as a home health aide starting to a certified nursing assistant in Palliative, Rehab, and Hospice Care for the past 9 years, this has really opened my eyes to the problems with modern medicine. First, I think families rely too much on strangers to take care of their loved ones in the end of life care, so they do not have to witness the death of their loved ones. The reason I think is harmful, because it has created many insecurities, uncertainties, and fears in the average person regarding the end of their own life! Humans tend to fear the unknown. I know I do!
Second, I agree with the author in the article that I have attached below, when he says something like, modern medicine has created this image that "death is somehow is seen as a failure." In this hyper-pro-life world, I feel this mindset is rampant! May have something to do with SI, but it seems that the pendulum has swung so far to the biased to the pro-life/ life-longevity/ quantity-over-quality system; I think this seeing death-as-a-failure-attitude has infested modern medicine and society at large! I see a lot of family members urging medical personelle to extend their loved ones lives at all costs- so it goes both ways between family members and medical staff!
Anyways,the attached article, really speaks to me because my mother is a retired after 25 years nurse, and i have two older siblings who work in healthcare. One is a doctor of geriatrics and the other an ER Nurse. On a family get-together a while back, both my siblings were bragging how they never had a patient die on their shift. I was aghast and I said, "Well, I have had several patients die during my shifts..... I suppose it's because I do the grunt work!" They both kinda looked at me with cocked heads (as if I were somehow a failure....can't read minds but...) Well they didn't even respond to it! But to my mind- It's not like I killed them! They were old, terminal, and it was their time! Personally, I am happy they are out of their suffering, but these words fall on a lot choosing -to-be -deaf ears today! Truthfully, I don't feel like a failure if at all if someone dies because it they were terminal in whatever! .......Because, first, I have to work in a job that I can physically do, or I end up in poverty and suffering even more myself! So it's not as if I asked for this system either. .....Oh, but i did recently quit my job! THE SWEET TASTE OF FREEDOM....And right after, I went to the Badlands and Deadwood..gambled, hiked, smoked pot, drank, hung out with the locals... i didn't get laid or go camping..if you must know!!.....But I do want to go camping...... pretty soon! lol
Anyways, I thought I would reflect on my last 9 years at my job........Well --Here's my conclusion and other thoughts: Truthfully, I think the real failure is actually modern medicine! But I don't think any system is going to be perfect because human nature basically sucks :), but I wish they would at least allow for and accept those who would chose a Death with Dignity/Legalized Euthanasia.......
innerself.com
FYI> it's a long read....i skimmed it, personally... :)
Second, I agree with the author in the article that I have attached below, when he says something like, modern medicine has created this image that "death is somehow is seen as a failure." In this hyper-pro-life world, I feel this mindset is rampant! May have something to do with SI, but it seems that the pendulum has swung so far to the biased to the pro-life/ life-longevity/ quantity-over-quality system; I think this seeing death-as-a-failure-attitude has infested modern medicine and society at large! I see a lot of family members urging medical personelle to extend their loved ones lives at all costs- so it goes both ways between family members and medical staff!
Anyways,the attached article, really speaks to me because my mother is a retired after 25 years nurse, and i have two older siblings who work in healthcare. One is a doctor of geriatrics and the other an ER Nurse. On a family get-together a while back, both my siblings were bragging how they never had a patient die on their shift. I was aghast and I said, "Well, I have had several patients die during my shifts..... I suppose it's because I do the grunt work!" They both kinda looked at me with cocked heads (as if I were somehow a failure....can't read minds but...) Well they didn't even respond to it! But to my mind- It's not like I killed them! They were old, terminal, and it was their time! Personally, I am happy they are out of their suffering, but these words fall on a lot choosing -to-be -deaf ears today! Truthfully, I don't feel like a failure if at all if someone dies because it they were terminal in whatever! .......Because, first, I have to work in a job that I can physically do, or I end up in poverty and suffering even more myself! So it's not as if I asked for this system either. .....Oh, but i did recently quit my job! THE SWEET TASTE OF FREEDOM....And right after, I went to the Badlands and Deadwood..gambled, hiked, smoked pot, drank, hung out with the locals... i didn't get laid or go camping..if you must know!!.....But I do want to go camping...... pretty soon! lol
Anyways, I thought I would reflect on my last 9 years at my job........Well --Here's my conclusion and other thoughts: Truthfully, I think the real failure is actually modern medicine! But I don't think any system is going to be perfect because human nature basically sucks :), but I wish they would at least allow for and accept those who would chose a Death with Dignity/Legalized Euthanasia.......
Fear and Denial of Death: Is it Fear of Dying or Fear of Death? - InnerSelf.com
by David Wendell Moller. As enormous community effort goes into cleaning up areas of pornography, litter, and dirt, modern society spends considerable effort on disinfecting the experience of dying. This inclination to hide and exclude death from everyday social activity is supported by the...
FYI> it's a long read....i skimmed it, personally... :)
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