According to how you are talking about the situation, even though there is clear annoyance, you are still speaking as someone who wants to help. I would take your word for having the best of intentions.
However this story is a stark reminder that unwanted help IS forced.
Its invasive, its disrespectful, its controlling, especially when you cant defend against it, it strips you of everything including your humanity and agency. Backlash is not only expected, but to a certain extent also warranted.
If there is a right to oneās own life, there should also be a right to oneās own death.
I worked in healthcare for 6 years. I have very low opinion of the system that simultaneously created an entire industry around abortions, but keeps people alive and suffering due to this play pretend nonsense about Christian values and the Hippocratic oath.
I still remember the scent of that one patient with terminal cancer that started to rot alive, but was kept on going with morpheein. I cant even comprehend how he didnt die to sepsis, but i still remember that stinging sweet scent alongside the scent of the bleached sheets.
We put down horses with broken legs because we do not want them to suffer. We do the same for our pets when we know that all that awaits them is suffering.
Yet we are perfectly happy with making people go insane in care homes and very literally rot alive as they spend every conscious moment they have with screaming in pain.
There are things about humanity that hit a level of hypocrisy and double standards that are nothing short of incomprehensible, if not outright evil and insane.
Nurses are given the task to spport life, and if we were to succumb to assisted dying, we would be charged with a felony.
I too have cared for people rotting away at home, and know the smell that lingers the rest of the day. I have also seen impossible social situations, but I had a job to do. A smile and a friendly conversation is all we can provide alongside professional care.
I am aware. Thats why my comment was not directed at you, and thats why i said that i recognize from the way you speak that you have no bad intent in the matter.
Yeah. Its a job and a role. And i dont hold it against you.
Its just the wider context that isā¦ what it is.
Okay, so imagine the situation. I became a nurse to care for people, and then if I started killing them, can you see the problem? I wasnāt a nurse to take on that task, even if I feel for the person suffering.
The closest we came to that was talking to the doctors about a situation and asking if they could give more painkillers, knowing that at a certain dosage, it could suppress the breathing apparatus. But this is the decision of the GP.
Itās not killing them. Itās ending prolonged torture that going to end in death anyway. You sound self righteous. What could be more caring than ending a personās suffering in a kind and empathetic way? People that possibly have no one who gives a shit about them? Palliative ācarersā arenāt caring at all. They seem to be the loudest voices against euthanasia. They only care about themselves.
Another person using anecdotal information to condemn every carer in care homes in the world. When you mention concentration camps, your agenda becomes a confession.