“One of our team nurses shared that her only training on caring for the dying involved a lecture from a funeral home manager.”
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“The legal method I suggest most for a dignified and peaceful death is to stop all treatments, especially antibiotics.”
“There should be a JLMA form: Just Leave Me Alone, for those of us who concede that we’re actually going to die some day and work to keep our end-times as inexpensive and comfortable as possible.”
“They made the end of his life horrible and painful and humiliating,” Elaine Greenberg said. “What’s the sense of having a living will if it’s not honored?”
A “good” death is one in which you exert maximum autonomy over your end-of-life journey. Here are some checklists for what needs to be done.
Managing dying and death is difficult enough. But if you do nothing, you’ll be a pawn in a profit-driven medical system.
When you believe it’s time to go, what options do you really have? There are more than you you think, without having to resort to a violent ending.
Please join us in welcoming author, podcast host, and end-of-life educator, and atheist chaplain Terri Daniel as a guest contributor to the blog.
Advice from hospice physician Karen Wyatt to make sure your exit is on your terms.
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