Assisted Suicide Now Legal in Canada BUT Such Legislation Unjustified

AMOUNTS TO YET ANOTHER GOVERNMENT SCAM-

Not only dangerously open to abuse, taxpayer expense of a court ruling entirely unnecessary and totally ILLEGAL. 
People-In order to be politically/socially correct, I will call them patients who would opt for “assisted suicide”-someone else deliberately causing their death are not, really, looking to commit suicide. Perhaps they lack the courage to do so, it does not matter. What they looking for is not an accomplice but someone to commit the crime of- MURDER-the deliberate taking of a human life, other than in times of war.

Definition of Palliative Care

Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.

Palliative Care:

There are no time restrictions. Since there are no time limits on when you can receive palliative care, it acts to fill the gap for patients who want and need comfort at any stage of any disease, whether terminal or chronic. In a palliative care program, there is no expectation that life-prolonging therapies will be avoided.

1.         Palliative care can be received by patients at any time, at any stage of illness whether it be terminal or not.

2.         Provides relief from pain and other distressing symptoms; affirms life and regards dying as a normal process.

3.       Intends to neither hasten nor postpone death.

4.         Integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care.

5.         Offers a support system to help patients live as actively as possible, or as they wish, until death.

6.         Offers a support system to help the family cope during the patient’s illness, and in his or her own bereavement.

7.         Uses the team, rather than primary approach, to address the needs of patients and their families, including bereavement counselling, if indicated. Palliative care teams are made up of doctors, nurses, and other professional medical caregivers, often at the facility where a patient will first receive treatment. These individuals will administer or oversee most of the on-going comfort-care patients receive.

8.         While palliative care can be administered in the home, it is most common to receive palliative care in an institution such as a hospital, extended care facility, or nursing home that is associated with a palliative care team.

9.         Will enhance quality of life, while such exists, and may positively influence the course of illness.

10.       Is applicable early in the course of illness, in conjunction with other therapies intended to prolong life, such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy, and includes those investigations needed to better understand and manage distressing clinical complications.

The Differences Between Hospice and Palliative Care.

Hospice care and palliative care are very similar when it comes to the most important issue for dying people: care. Most people have heard of hospice care and have a general idea of what services hospice provides. What they don’t know or what may become confusing is that hospice provides “palliative care,” and that palliative care is both a method of administering “comfort” care and increasingly, an administered system of palliative care offered most prevalently by hospitals. As an adjunct or supplement to some of the more “traditional” care options, both hospice and palliative care protocols call for patients to receive a combined approach where medications, day-to-day care, equipment, bereavement counselling, and symptom treatment are administered through a single program. Where palliative care programs and hospice care programs differ greatly is in the care location, timing, payment, and eligibility for services.

Hospice:

1.         You must generally be considered terminal or within six months of death to be eligible for most hospice programs or to receive hospice benefits from your insurance.

2.         Before considering hospice, it is important to check on policy limits for payment. While hospice can be considered an all-inclusive treatment in terms of payment (hospice programs cover almost all expenses) insurance coverage for hospice can vary.

3.         Some hospice programs offer subsidized care for the economically disadvantaged, or for patients not covered under their own insurance. Many hospice programs are covered under Medicare.

4.         Most programs concentrate on comfort rather than aggressive disease abatement. By electing to forego extensive life-prolonging treatment, hospice patients can concentrate on getting the most out of the time they have left, without some of the negative side effects that life-prolonging treatments can have. By electing NO INTERVENTION or Life Prolonging Treatment-not quite as drastic as it sounds-while it is true, of course that the patient is given no food or nutrition comfort, and hygienic-care continue, as does pain control. Since one patient may a higher tolerance for pain than another, level of control needed is very difficult to determine-consequently patients opting for No Life Prolonging Intervention Measures  are often put on a PRN Morphine Drip—ensuring that they will suffer absolutely NO  further pain.

 5.        Most hospice patients can achieve a level of comfort that allows them to concentrate on the emotional and practical issues of dying.

It is important to note, however, that there will be exceptions to the general precepts outlined. There are some hospice programs that will provide life-prolonging treatments, and there are some palliative care programs that concentrate mostly on end-of-life CARE. Consult your physician or care-administrator for the best service for you. © Al (Alex-Alexander) D Girvan. All rights reserved.