Dear Judy,
I’ll bet you read the long article in Sunday’s New York Times about “Drug-Induced Sleep” — which in my view is just a nice phrase for “Hastening Death Through Oblivion.”
What do you think? I’m a nurse (although not a hospice nurse) and personally, I am positive that a lot of those end-of-life drugs like morphine actually [...]
Dear Judy,
My 48-year-old sister has colon cancer which has spread everywhere; the doctors say she has maybe nine to ten months left. She is also in pain, which we are trying to get the doctors to deal with.
The issue is our mother, who suffering from dementia: small strokes in the brain mixed with what is [...]
It’s important for anyone who receives an unhappy diagnosis to realize that although the phrase ”terminal illness” isn’t exactly a mood-enhancer, it also doesn’t necessarily signal a future of bad pain. Pancreatic cancer patients, for example, often experience no pain.
But for those of you who are experiencing pain — or are friends or relatives of those who may be [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009