CW- end of life

My friend is dying. She has multiple issues and MS that has her paralyzed. She is so angry with the situation: illness, the medical system, one of her kids cutting her off. It's understandable! I can't be there because of health and distance. She has chosen MAID at some point (medically assisted legal death). This does not bother me in any way. I wish I could help her find peace (maybe that's not my job, and I am not a qualified......???). How do you process the injustice of illness and the medical system? I am guessing she's not done yet on some level. I just really wish her some sort of peace or better last days.

Just throwing this out there if anyone has been through this and or has a link for useful stuff.

#EndOfLife #MS #MAID #terminal #hospice #death

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/116292195440386555

Meanwhile... I sit here in the #USA arguing with family about the cost of #hospice care for a woman who gave decades of her life as a #PublicSchool #teacher.

#UniversalHealth #Healthcare #affordability #ConceptsOfAPlan

"My sister called: our father was about to die. Our parents, long divorced, were both in hospice, on opposite coasts." —Amanda Peet for The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/my-season-of-ativan?src=longreads

#longreads #family #hospice #cancer #writing #reading

Amanda Peet on Getting Breast Cancer While Losing Her Parents

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/my-season-of-ativan

There is perhaps no experience so profound as being involved in another human's final moments in this life.

And nothing so surreal as sitting with someone in #hospice while reading news about #war in #Iran and #Gaza, and humanitarian crises of #starvation, #violence, and pilferage perpetuated by the #rich and those in #power.

#Humanity is unspeakably beautiful and ineffably cruel.

is it appropriate to send a get well card to somebody in hospice?

seriously

One of our volunteers had a heart attack

And since we don't see people on a regular basis we've been working on getting the card signed for the past week- it was going to go out in the mail on Monday.

I just found out tonight that the person is now in hospice.

I'm not sure if we should still send the card.

#hospice #death