Text/Liang Jiaqi
Leaving with dignity is also a form of loving life.
Zhang Zhaoan, a deputy to the National People's Congress, recently submitted a proposal on promoting living wills to improve the quality of life. He believes that advocating living will can provide society and individuals with a choice to relieve dying pain and death anxiety at their own will, which is not only the personal rights and spiritual needs of individuals, but also can reduce the excessive waste of social medical resources and reduce the physical and mental pain and economic burden of patients and their families.
According to Baidu, a living will refers to an indicative document signed by people in advance, that is, when they are healthy or conscious, they indicate what kind of medical care they want or don't want at the end of incurable injury or death.
Keywords tracheal intubation, cardiac shock, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, ventilator …
In fact, these are very harmful to a dying person, such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, because the bones of the elderly are brittle, and it is easy for doctors to break their ribs when doing cardiopulmonary resuscitation …
"At Slayer's insistence, the medical staff gave lin li repeated cardiopulmonary resuscitation, which lasted more than ten minutes.
The old man's bone calcium loss is serious, and his whole body is swollen, so that two ribs are crushed, leaving a fist-sized pit in his chest.
Finally, the old man left.
A year ago, due to acute respiratory failure caused by lung infection, lin li was rushed to the hospital by his family for treatment-cutting his throat and inserting a ventilator.
This plug-in has never been removed. Later, in addition to the ventilator, lin li also needs to insert a gastric tube, a urinary tube, a gallbladder drainage tube, a nasal feeding tube and a venous indwelling tube ...
Life and death are between these pipes.
When this protracted but doomed tug-of-war finally ended, my daughter found her mother's body as devastated as a battlefield. "
This is a news I saw at the rule of law weekend.
Other places are not clear. As far as I know, most people in Guangzhou died in ICU.
"China's traditional filial piety makes us accustomed to prolonging the life of our loved ones, because we are afraid of facing death, but we can't understand the physical and psychological suffering and pain experienced by our loved ones at this time. Living wills can change our imagination of death, change the way we face death, give us a deeper view of life, feel the love and care at the end of life, and feel that personal wishes are respected. " Zhang Zhaoan wrote in "Suggestions on Advocating Living Wills to Improve the Quality of Life".
To die as naturally and with dignity as possible is to cherish and love life.