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I’ve been remiss in not raising my voice louder on this case, given my story ..... A thread about discontent and choice in death. /1
#MAID #AssistedDeath #RighttoDie https://twitter.com/docsgreen/status/1296081996603482119
#MAID #AssistedDeath #RighttoDie https://twitter.com/docsgreen/status/1296081996603482119
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-medically-assisted-death-allows-couple-married-almost-73-years-to-die/
Perhaps you remember the Toronto couple who received #MAID together? I consider them the poster children for #AssistedDeath - content w both life and death. /2
Perhaps you remember the Toronto couple who received #MAID together? I consider them the poster children for #AssistedDeath - content w both life and death. /2
And Audrey Parker, with her powerful message about the need for advance requests? She too embraced the fullness of what both life and death meant to her, even in choosing an earlier #MAID date than she would have liked. /3
Or Ing Wong-Ward, who spoke of why she would not choose #MAID, sharing a critically important view as a person living with disability and the importance of fulsome palliative care? /4 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-may-3-2018-1.4645398/a-compromised-life-is-worth-living-why-ing-wong-ward-won-t-choose-medically-assisted-death-1.4645437
The people you do not hear from publicly are those who are angry, discontent, frustrated, depressed, and unhappy AND still choosing #MAID. I was married to such a man. And from time to time I hear from the loved ones of people who share these feelings and emotions at #EOL. /5
#MAID is most “simply” about choice at end of life. It involves a rigorous assessment and approval process, which is ultimately focused on the health, diagnosis, symptoms, and suffering of an individual. Some disagree, but to me it is a component of fulsome palliative care. /6
There is a growing community of people who can speak about #MAID grief. It is anticipatory. It can feel disenfranchised. There can be guilt and powerlessness, that counter witnessing a choice which becomes loss. We need to speak about this form of grief, as we do all grief. /7
And we in the #MAID community - those who can and feel able - need to speak of what it means to witness a chosen YET discontent death. These concepts are not mutually exclusive. Life and death are complex. Please let’s allow each individual their experience as such. /8
https://bringthejoy.blog/2017/10/05/first-blog-post/
I will end this thread with the first entry in my blog, an insight into choosing to die, and dying unhappy. You are loved and missed Beardo. And your memory brings joy. #iSeeYou /end
I will end this thread with the first entry in my blog, an insight into choosing to die, and dying unhappy. You are loved and missed Beardo. And your memory brings joy. #iSeeYou /end
