The purpose of the serious illness conversation is to offer patients a clear choice between treating and not treating an incurable disease like liver cancer. The goal is to give the person permission to alleviate pain and suffering. The individual might decide to be treated as a patient or honored as a person if given this option near the end of life. A non-serious illness conversation ends with the patient wishing to deny fate and oblige suffering recommended by healthcare heroes. A serious illness conversation begins with the person accepting fate and resting in peace through the tender … [Read more...] about Jimmy Carter’s Non-Serious Illness Conversation
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Learn to Earn End-of-Life Respect
Pele, the famous Brazilian soccer star, reportedly stopped medical treatment for colon cancer. Media outlets stated he was receiving various iterations of comfort, hospice, and palliative care which were perceived as criminal and disrespectful. His daughter denied these allegations on Instagram. How often are those with serious illness treated like criminals for wrongdoing? When medical treatment is withdrawn or withheld, it seems the person has lost the battle or chose not to fight. “Ain’t it a shame” reverberates around the airwaves and within the person, especially after … [Read more...] about Learn to Earn End-of-Life Respect