<h1>When an elderly person submits an application for euthanasia, what should we do? </h1>
Italo Calvino said: "It is easier to give up everything than people think, the difficulty lies in the beginning." Once you give up something that you thought was fundamental, you will find that you can give up other things, and there are many other things that you can give up later. ”
Is it really a better way to abandon the world voluntarily in a quiet mountain villa surrounded by mountains?
If you think about it, in the terminal, it is better not to talk about it anyway.
And the most painful part will always be hidden in the deepest part of the heart, even if the body has died, there will still be a broken mark, in the heart of the living, in the memory.
This is a film released in France in 2012 and received four nominations at the 38th César Awards in France in 2013!
In 2013, Shanghai Film Group also recommended it.
It was broadcast on Central Radio 6 the other day. It has also been translated as "Spring Scene" (Taiwan) / Spring Is Delayed / Limited Time Spring / Spring Is Short, etc.
Alain (Vincent Lindon) is middle-aged and has achieved almost nothing but a few years in prison, and he has just come out of prison penniless.
In desperation, Alain, who had nowhere to go, had to return to his mother.
His mother, Juve (Helen Vincent Hélène Vincent), is an old lady who loves to be clean and lives an orderly life.
She loves to play puzzles.
For his indisputable son, the elderly Juve naturally does not have a good face, because of various trivial matters of life, in the process of coming and going, the contradictions between mother and son escalate step by step.
By chance, Alain learns that his mother's cancer has begun to worsen.
Knowing that her time is running out, Juve does not want to die in the torment of illness but this life, she wants to take control of her own destiny, ending her life before the butcher knife of the disease is cut down.
So Juve submitted an euthanasia application to the local association and had already chosen a "place of death" in Switzerland.
Knowing his mother's decision, Alain's heart was full of mixed feelings.
The staff of the association came to visit and told Juve and Alain about the whole process of euthanasia.
Alain eventually agreed to her mother's decision and spent the last day of her life with her.
Alain drove with his mother to the association's designated location in Switzerland.
The staff showed the two men the medications they needed to take.
After taking the anti-vomiting medicine and checking the potion that was about to be drunk, the mother asked her son whether she had given him the key to the house, which showed that her departure was not carefree, and if it were not for the unstoppable deterioration of the terminal illness, she would not leave with confidence.
And at this moment, the son is like a sensible child, his eyes are constantly looking at his mother and looking at the potion, that moment is really sad.
The drug began to work, and the mother went into a comatose state without pain.
The forensic doctor conducts a death appraisal and the local police station comes forward to handle the relevant aftermath!
Related Information:
Euthanasia, as we often call euthanasia, is strictly defined as assisting the patient to leave.
Even in Switzerland, it is stipulated that medical personnel cannot live for him at the patient's request, but can only provide drugs and/or tools to help the patient end his life.
Therefore, whether it is taking medication or injection, the patient needs to perform the final steps on his own, and cannot fake others.
On May 10, 2018, THE SWISS euthanasia agency EXET announced that Goodall, a 104-year-old Australian scientist, died at 12:30 p.m. local time.
Goodall was awarded the Order of Australia medal and has 3 doctorates, and was the first scholar to study the greenhouse effect. He has served as editor-in-chief of 30 ecosystem magazines and has been involved in the publication of more than 100 books.
Wearing a sweater printed with the words "Aging Disgracefully," he told reporters: "One should be free to choose death if death is at an appropriate point in time." ”
Goodall has no incurable disease, but said that his quality of life in recent years has not been as good as before, he said: "In the past one or two years, my ability has not been as good as before, my vision has deteriorated in the past 6 years, I don't want to continue my life, I am glad that I have the opportunity to make a conclusion tomorrow." ”
He said: "I don't feel like it has anything to do with anyone else's choice. ”
"Ending my life tomorrow is my own choice."
There are two major euthanasia institutions in Switzerland, one is EXET for Professor Goodall and the other is Dignitas (Dignity).
Dignitas, based in Zurich, Switzerland, was founded in 1998 by Ludwig Minelli and emphasizes in its purpose: "Live with dignity; die with dignity".
By the end of 2016, it had assisted more than 2,000 people to complete their lives, most of them non-Swiss, mainly from the UK and Germany.
Even in Switzerland, these auxiliary institutions were initially squeezed out locally.
Dignitas has rented several apartments as offices, but has been repeatedly complained that no one wants to be next to it, and dignitas once had to serve customers in temporary motels for death, and also took shelter in a factory next to Zurich's largest brothel until 2009, when the organization officially settled down after buying a two-story house on the outskirts of Zurich.
This blue-looking building, with a general interior, tiled floors, cheap furniture, simple paintings and ornaments, etc., is like a three-star hotel furnishings.
But to step into this simple building and press the last stop button of life, it takes time and money.
First of all, you have to register with Dignitas to fill in the simple information to register as a member, fill out the form without money, but Dignitas will send an official enrollment manual and bill after receiving your information.
The entrance fee plus an annual fee of about $300, followed by sending out your medical records and explaining why you can't stand your condition, and having your local doctor review your eligibility, which costs about $4,000.
Paying this money does not mean that you get the green light to euthanasia, and the Dignitas website mentions that to obtain "services", those who have to suffer from incurable diseases or suffer unbearable pain or incapacitation.
The Swiss Euthanasia Act also clearly stipulates that the institution assisting in euthanasia must confirm that the patient provides a diagnosis issued by two doctors, and the patient needs to be conscious and fully aware of the definition and procedure of euthanasia.
This set of check-in procedures, strictly speaking, is verified from the patient's own doctor to the doctor in the euthanasia institution, for example: if it is not a physical illness, but a mental illness, can it be euthanized? What is unbearable pain? The doctor will evaluate the patient based on the patient's original family doctor, psychologist, or hospital report.
If the doctor in charge of the review finally decides to give the green light, Dignitas will arrange the next journey for you, including making an appointment with the doctor twice after arriving in Switzerland, communicating with the staff nurse, etc., to make sure that everything is all right, and then prescribe the medicine and arrange the final service of your life, which will cost you about $4,000.
The cost of post-cremation and death certificate issuance is additionally $4,000.
This euthanasia journey costs more than $10,000 and takes about 3 months from application to execution.
Dignitas will prescribe a sufficient dose of Sodium Pentobarbital, an anesthetic that patients can choose to take orally or inject, send the drug into the body, fall asleep within 2 to 5 minutes, and finally enter a coma, dying of respiratory paralysis, the process is fast and painless.
The whole process is monitored by the organization's nursing staff, and the local police will also be on standby to observe.
Both Dignitas and EXIT say the majority of members are cautious about euthanasia, with only 30 percent eventually getting euthanasia services, even with the green light of a doctor.
Dignitas founder Ludwig Minelli is not a doctor, but a lawyer, insisting that people should be able to determine their own destiny, that ending life is a self-choice, and that he does not put moral and religious values above anyone's right to freedom.