The totally off-topic thread

[Pushka]

I see that Adelaide is about to have the first Euthanasia clinic in Australia offering advice and testing. Pending a vote on euthanasia in Parliament.

 

[erkpod]

Here's hoping I don't have Glandular Fever again. Except for 2 hours earlier this afternoon, I've slept all day today.

 

[aupirate]

Interesting, we can despatch our pets humanly but not our loved ones or ourselves for that matter. Difficult subject very polarising.

 

[Simo]

Interesting, we can despatch our pets humanly but not our loved ones or ourselves for that matter. Difficult subject very polarising.

It is very personal topic.

I don't understand the line between a doctor turning off a ventilator/giving no more drugs/no blood transfusion/no resuscitation order and a doctor giving a lethal dose of a medicine.

I don't want to start a burning of the steak for this post.

 

[Pushka]

It is very personal topic.

I don't understand the line between a doctor turning off a ventilator/giving no more drugs/no blood transfusion/no resuscitation order and a doctor giving a lethal dose of a medicine.

I don't want to start a burning of the steak for this post.

I think the former actions are passive whilst administration of a lethal drug is active?

I strongly believe in euthanasia and am hopeful this will be the start of being able to make a choice should the need arise.

 

[JohnK]

And many people are charletons.the belief that there exists miracles is what keeps many charletons in business. Have cancer? Oh please take my tonic. You will be cured. Touch my head and you will be better. Etc etc.

I won't start on religion.

You dont need to start on religion. There are cons everywhere. They are not all religious.

Science does not have all the answers. Science isnt right about everything. Where science has no explanation it substitutes a formula to make it believable to some.

 

[Princess Fiona]

It is very personal topic.

I don't understand the line between a doctor turning off a ventilator/giving no more drugs/no blood transfusion/no resuscitation order and a doctor giving a lethal dose of a medicine.

I don't want to start a burning of the steak for this post.

I do
No burning required

 

[suze2000]

As we couldn't have kids, I have no expectations that there will be anybody to make sure I am cared for humanely and with dignity when I am old, and desperately hope that voluntary euthanasia will be an option for me when I need it, and not when someone's religious sensibilities say it's okay. I am my own self-actualised person, I have made my own decisions all my life, why am I denied the means to end it peacefully at my own desire? Whose business is it but my own, when there will be no-one to grieve?

 

[drron]

Well on a more pleasant medical subject I have been honoured and thoroughly enjoyed being an examiner of the final year medical students in their clinical long case.
Some wonderful young people who are a credit to this country.

 

[cove]

Thanks drron my GP was a year ahead of me at Perth Modern School so retirement/part time work is on his agenda.
Keep up the good work!

 

[kpc]

Well on a more pleasant medical subject I have been honoured and thoroughly enjoyed being an examiner of the final year medical students in their clinical long case.
Some wonderful young people who are a credit to this country.

....unfortunately, there are some you wonder how they got this far!

 

[kpc]

I do
No burning required

As do I...can't seem to do multiquote on IPad, but to a couple of the posters above, do you have an advanced care directive?... And importantly does your next of kin know about it and your wishes?

 

[cove]

Yes we have just completed an advanced care directive last weekend and then we talked with our two sons.

 

[Pushka]

Yes we have just completed an advanced care directive last weekend and then we talked with our two sons.

I am not of that age quite yet and fit. But yes, my family knows I have no desire for heroic measures to save me in instances like a stroke. The last thing I would want, if I had a stroke, would be to end up as I began my life, in nappies and dribbling and being spoon fed. Why anyone in the medical profession would think this is a good outcome for anyone beggars belief.

Although, a month ago I lost a friend. She simply didn't wake up one morning. Her (adult) children found her. She was fit, slim, never smoked, no illnesses or anything. She was in her late fifties. How can that happen.....

 

[Simo]

I do
No burning required

I am glad you do Princess.

 

[cove]

Our State Health Department in WA is recommending everyone who is our age to do a directive. If something catastrophic occurs I don't want to be plied with life extending heart drugs if my brain has taken an irreversible hit.
On a nicer thought I hope everyone is enjoying their travelling.

 

[Buzzard]

Advanced care directive and Medical P of A for both Mrs Buzzard & I.
Unfortunately the way it is at the moment, modern medicine will try and keep you alive for as long as possible, which is just wrong. Put me down I say, put me down...... but not just yet.

 

[Pushka]

Watching channel 7 to see the Dreamliner story and the first cousins marrying came on. I have quite a level of discomfort - not religious based but the gene pool stuff. The couple involved actually look like each other though. I guess it's up to them and genetic counsellors etc.

 

[Mal]

Watching channel 7 to see the Dreamliner story and the first cousins marrying came on. I have quite a level of discomfort - not religious based but the gene pool stuff. The couple involved actually look like each other though. I guess it's up to them and genetic counsellors etc.

Some cities and states have limited gene pools (and this has gotten better over time ... but is still an issue in some places). You don't need to marry a cousin to look like the partner in some places!

 

[Buzzard]

Watching channel 7 to see the Dreamliner story and the first cousins marrying came on. I have quite a level of discomfort - not religious based but the gene pool stuff. The couple involved actually look like each other though. I guess it's up to them and genetic counsellors etc.

What happens in the family, stays in the family.