How Doctors Die

[lighthouse33]

How Doctors Die

It?s Not Like the Rest of Us, But It Should Be

zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die/ideas/nexus/

[Liz D.]

Thank you for posting that article.  It was incredibly good and enlightening!! It was excellent! I want to copy it and put it with my health care proxy so everyone will know how I feel about 'end of life' decisions. 

[Carolina]

Thanks, Lighthouse.

We all need to follow their example.

The thing is, at the point of 'emergency', we often don't get to choose.

Fortunately my younger son is a doctor and he is the one who will make decisions for me.

At one point I said:

'Josh, you will make sure than I am "unplugged".?

He said:

"Mom, you will NEVER BE PLUGGED IN to start with".

So he 'get's it'.

And if he's there, I'm safe.

Hugs,  Elaine

[cccourt1942]

Our family watched my younger brother die from chemo from the age of 32 to 34.  Acute mylogenous Leukemia (Adult).  It was in 1980.  All of us swore we would not do it ourselves.  This account is how my father approached his own dx of cancer at age 80.  He had GREAT quality of life about  a year until he died.