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Mike Carruthers:
Death, it's a topic no one likes to talk about but the fact is…
Virginia
Morris:
We can eat all the broccoli we want and jog all the miles we want
and wear skin cream and we're all going to die and we're going
to lose people we love so we might as well know something about
it.
Virginia
Morris, author of the book, Talking
About Death Won't Kill You says as a society we're in a
bit of a state of denial when it comes to death.
Don't
you ever find out somebody you know died and you sort of think
well did they smoke, did they eat Twinkies, what did they do
wrong? I mean I think we really have come to this feeling that
between medicine and our own good behavior we have this major
control over it.
But the
fact is we will all die. So we need to give some thought to
our own death.
Most
people say, 90% or so of people say they want to die at home
peacefully. 80% of people in this country die in hospitals,
in nursing homes, hooked to tubes, in pain, distanced from the
people they love, you know we die horrifically.
Virginia
says it's important to know that despite your wishes if your
loved ones want the doctor to keep trying something else to
keep you alive that's likely to happen.
Really
a doctor, I think rightfully so in many ways, is going to listen
to the person who's going to survive than the person that's
standing there speaking. You know a one-page document signed
in healthier times doesn't mean much when you're making life
and death decisions. So, again why it's important to talk to
your family members to explain you know, what is it you're afraid
of, what would be unbearable to you, what are your feelings
about it?
At somethingyoushouldknow.net
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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