In a groundbreaking move championing the right to die with dignity, the Government Medical College Hospital in #Kollam, #Kerala, has launched #India’s first #LivingWill Information Counter near its outpatient block
The Government Medical College Hospital (GMCH) in Kollam, Kerala, has launched India’s first Living Will Information Counter. Living wills enable individuals to exercise autonomy over their healthcare, ensuring they receive the treatment they desire while sparing loved ones the burden of making difficult decisions.
More on the #23andme bankruptcy in this thread by @pluralistic (read upward from the link).
But the thread (read downward) alsopromotes the fascinating idea of a compulsory "living will", that for any company on whose function their customers rely on, the company has to set aside instructions and funds to help transition the users.
For goods attached to a mandatory cloud service, e.g. open-source the components or help free the goods from the cloud.
#LivingWill
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https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113284677627117369
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There is no worse feeling than being far away from a friend whose loved one is suddenly in critical condition in the #hospital
#friends #EmotionalSupport #mortality
I hope everyone over the age of 18 has a will and has shared their #LastWishes #AdvanceDirectives #LivingWill
There's a wonderful free blue booklet people can fill out called the Five Wishes.
Versions legal in every state. It asks good questions about all aspects of what one would want if they were dying. #GoodDeath
In the wake of #Project2025 and #Trump’s appeal to voters to vote for him “one last time” in #Election2024, any voter who votes for #DonaldTrump would be like signing an irrevocable #AdvanceDirective, also known as #LivingWill to Trump and his torch-bearers.
If the Trump-loyalists decide to pull life support off anybody they don’t like, #justDie.
Hook me up to whatever tubes are necessary and put my iPhone library on shuffle and let me ride it out until you get sick of paying for me. #LivingWill #achd
From: @grandrapidsnews
https://mastodon.social/@grandrapidsnews/112366674759693582
The Hidden Harms of CPR
It is an open secret in medicine that #CPR is both brutal and rarely effective. The procedure begins at death, when someone loses a pulse
It requires a hundred chest compressions per minute…and using a defibrillator to deliver an electric shock to the chest
The force of compressions can shatter ribs…puncture lungs, bruise the heart, cause major blood vessels to rupture
#Brain damage…occurs in forty per cent of hospitalized patients.
#death #livingwill
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/the-hidden-harms-of-cpr
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