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Legalization of euthanasia and the risks...

Doctors, who were unable to admit to the family that there was no hope for the patient offered another chemotherapy, not knowing what else to do. "Requests for euthanasia often result from a rejection of the aggressive and inappropriate care," says Dr. Mount, for whom euthanasia is totally incompatible with palliative care, although he concedes that both aim to reduce suffering. "The length of life is beyond our control, and it is not for us to decide," said Dr. Mount, for which the legalization of euthanasia would place the most vulnerable in our society at danger as people with disabilities and the elderly, sometimes feel like a burden to their family and society.

Precious time....

The last weeks of life are "the most precious time of family life" because this is when people resolve the unresolved cases where we can say the love and attachment that is brought to the family. "This is an important moment of sharing that can soften the death of the person who is dying and who can make the next 40 years calmer and happier for those who survive. This time holds tremendous potential that is lost if the person were euthanized," said Professor Mount lamenting the fact that death is a topic taboo in our society. "We must help people to dramatize death. It must make them see death as a natural phenomenon, a normal event," he said.

Teaching patients....

This patient has taught me that you can not judge the suffering of others" because, even in his terrible physical condition, dying became the best moments of his life. In his case, "his family probably suffered more than him," said Dr. Mount. The search for "meaning" in our lives is probably what most concerned about dying, says Dr. Mount. Some, like the skier Chip, find it within themselves. Others find in a narrow "connection with others." Many people establish this ("healing connection") with "music or some other form of art, or with nature", while many others find meaning through a "spiritual connection with reality Supreme" which can be "quantum completeness or god." In his study, Dr. Mount noticed that people who had found the sense of completeness lived a great inner peace and were not overwhelmed by anxiety and fear of death as those who had not found it. And to help them, Dr. Mount reiterates the importance of controlling their symptoms and to create an environment around them in their own image - and not one that is believed to be the best for them - allowing them to feel safe. He finally stresses the need to listen to the patient in order to help them find the kind of connection that soothes. [...]

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