I could write a whole blog about end of life. Was on palliative consults this week, and can't believe how many families are like, "when God is ready to take him/her, that's fine, but until then continue to aggressively treat them [with painful, futile, inhumane procedures that only extend their suffering]."
I just want to scream and pull out my hair!!
Modern medicine allows us to extend life indefinitely with tubes and machines and chemicals, but these people are already dead, for all intents and purposes. I know it's enormously difficult to let a loved one go- but at some point you have to realize how selfish it is to keep them suffering because YOU can't let go.
Waiting for God to "make the decision" will NEVER HAPPEN. That's because it already happened, when we put the tubes in, turned the machines on, and started dumping the chemicals into them.
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