How to Die a Good Death

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1. Please take care while watching these videos if this is a difficult topic for you.

2. Wow. I just went through something similar with my sister. She had cancer and was told to do hospice. When I spoke with someone about her situation, I was told palliative care. She was pretty adamant that palliative care, was just folks asking how you feel. So she decided to do hospice at home. She was told she could have 24 care, but she didn't know it would consist of family members. Because she didn't have insurance for it nor the money to pay for it. So, she was told a nurse would come a few times a week to check her vitals and someone would come to bathe her. So, my niece, (her daughter) and a social worker friend said they would do it. The very first night my niece called and told me it was too much to handle. I told her to ask her mother if she wanted to go back to the hospital, she said yes. They took her straight to the hospice facility. My niece went to see her everyday. I lived 2 hours away so I was going just on Sundays. The first Sunday she was up and talking, but she really couldn't eat, she had appendix cancer and it affected her gastrointestinal system. The next Sunday, it was such a drastic difference. After my visit, I got her final plans in order. I will say the hospice facility was calming and quiet, a really nice place with really nice people. I know there wasn't much they had to do for her at that point. She was on pain medication and anti anxiety medication. Dying in a hospital might be a harsher experience, but to linger on and not eat or not be able to eat until you die has got to be horrible. That last Sunday when I went to visit, I walked into the room and really thought she wasn't alive. It was beyond shocking. I'm sill shaken by it. She died in June. Sadly we will all have our day. So, yes, I am one of the people who want to die at home in bed at an extremely old age.

3. 👍👍👍

4. In his last video he literally said he think it may be possible for humans to live forever through age reversal technology. Still love the guy though. I especially loved his video about how a vegan diet can cure and even reverse baldness.

5. There is also hypothermia and narcotic overdose both fail safe.

6. Thank you Dr. Greger and team for covering these difficult but highly important topic 🙏

7. My mother had terminal gallbladder cancer and as it progressed, eating made her miserable. One day I told her that if she didn’t want to eat, it was her choice and I wouldn’t try to force her. It seemed to be a great relief for her to not eat and she passed away peacefully a couple of weeks later with her daughters by her side.

8. Thank you so much, Dr. Greger for discussing this much-needed topic that most people choose to ignore. My mother was sent to palliative care last year where we received good support but it still felt like an agony. Had she been in a normal hospital ward the end stage of her life would have been more traumatic, for her and for us. Unfortunately I could only say goodbye to her on a screen due to the unreasonably stringent Covid policies in China, which left a lifelong trauma on me. Wish we could pay attention to "a good death" or "death ethics" as much as to AI or how to boost longevity!

9. Such an important topic. My Dad had daily hospice care visits to ensure he wasn’t suffering and was able to die peacefully at home. My Mom went into a great assisted living facility when she got multiple myeloma. Eventually she was transferred from independent living into their assisted living unit, and the nurses and aides were vigilant about protecting her dignity throughout the dying process. It was only in discussion with friends that I learned that Mom & Dad’s experiences were very different than what most Americans face at end of life.

10. It’s been 4yrs and I can honestly say I was not ready to watch this 😞

11. It's great that you are covering this.

12. I love this channel!

13. My husband was part of an end of life Hospice program and now I am a Hospice volunteer. I recommend end of life Hospice care.

14. My family had a bad experience with our mother being in Hospice care. I have requested to my family that I die at home if possible.

15. Doc looks like he is dying.

16. So important to talk about. Thank you so much <3

17. Thanks. You must have heard of the Jain practice (of Jainism, one of the four Dharmic or Indic religions as also are Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism: all born in India) of santhara or sallekhana, a voluntary fasting until life ceases, some in the Shvetambara (white clad) sect of Jainism may choose this way to end life. There have been disputes on the legality of this and the matter has been debated in courts even the Supreme Court and has been much in the newspapers in past years. I understand that now santhara is legal but I haven't looked seriously at the subject.

18. Read the room. 🥹

19. I spent a lot of time with my mother at the end of her life. I was on my way back to her when the nursing home called me and told me she had died. I went there and waited for my godson to come pray with me for her spirit. Then I called the mortuary to come get her body. I wish I had known the value of plant-based eating. She would probably still be with me if I had.

20. Thank you for taking about this.

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