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"Don't extubate, I still want to live".
Today, a "extubation" video has aroused heated discussions among many people, the family in the video, because one person is terminally ill, can only use a ventilator to maintain his life, but because the family is really unable to persevere, the tube is finally removed.
Such a scene also pierced the hearts of many netizens, who expressed their opinions, but a big argument broke out, because one side thought they were "pitiful", while the other side thought they were "hateful". [Listen to the song]
01 What happened
On April 12, they filmed a video of an ordinary family from Gansu Province gathered around a window while a patient who appeared to be dying and barely kept alive on a ventilator was lying on a video.
According to reports, the 56-year-old patient had severe kidney failure and had been rescued in the hospital, but he had not fully recovered, and could only barely survive for 6 hours on a ventilator.
And the purpose of the family gathering here is to discuss one thing: whether to remove the ventilator of a loved one?
For such an ordinary family, it is undoubtedly very painful for a loved one who is seriously ill, on the one hand, they are still sad because of the terminal illness of their family, and on the other hand, they need to continuously invest a lot of financial resources and energy into it, and it may not be cured.
The cost of the patient's ventilator alone reached about 20 yuan per hour, so the patient had to spend more than 500 yuan a day, and in order to take care of the patient, someone needed to stay at home and could not carry out normal work, which really caused great difficulties.
Because of this, the family really couldn't afford such a high cost, so they finally decided to "extubate" through discussion, which should be regarded as ending the abyss of such pain and freeing the patient from such torture.
The reason why it caused heated discussions was that after they decided to extubate, the patient struggled on his own, and because he was on a ventilator and could not speak, his family gave him a pen and paper, but he wrote crookedly: "Don't extubate, I still want to live."
This sentence immediately caused the people around them to cry, but they really had no other way, so they did not listen to the patient's wishes, but still chose to "extubate", and the patient also ended his life after ten minutes.
02 Hot discussion on the Internet
After this video appeared, it immediately caused a lot of discussion, after all, there are indeed not a few cases where someone in the family is seriously ill, from hospitalization, surgery, various instruments, etc., are constantly consuming costs.
For many families, even with medical insurance, it is still difficult to bear such a huge amount of treatment costs, not to mention that many diseases are difficult to be completely cured, and the sick cannot be taken care of even in the future.
Therefore, many netizens can only express their understanding of this "extubation" matter, after all, it is human nature, but the patient's reluctance has really become a contradiction.
Some people think that since the patient himself does not agree, it means that he does not want to end his life at all, so whether the family's actions are a little too much, so that they violate the patient's rights, and more strictly even call it "murder".
On the other hand, the other side believes that when the patient has become in this situation, the time after that is only continuous torture, tormenting both themselves and their families, and this disease has caused huge ambitions for the family, so this helplessness is also acceptable.
Some people even empathize, saying that if they become like this in the future, they will definitely support their relatives to "extubate", because they don't want their lives to become a burden on the whole family.
There have been a lot of discussions about this issue, and in addition to the contradiction that "extubation is the patient's disagreement", there is also the problem that they filmed such a thing and eventually circulated it on the Internet.
If the family members privately decide whether to "extubate", or if they choose to sign and give up treatment in the hospital, there is a high probability that it will not cause such a discussion, but if the practice of oneself is completely announced, the nature is completely different.
After all, according to mainland law, even terminally ill patients have their own rights, and if such a practice is suspected of serious violations, the video will become their "evidence of the crime".
Therefore, this practice has become the second point of controversy, that is, whether this practice is really a crime, whether the family will go to jail for it, and whether it can only continue if there are serious patients in the family who cannot be treated, etc.
These two contradictions have also intensified the discussion between the parties, after all, there is no absolutely correct choice for this kind of thing.
03 Can I extubate?
In fact, there is no fixed answer to the question of whether extubation can be extubated, after all, according to different circumstances, the judgment of this behavior is also different, and it mainly needs to look at several aspects to decide.
The first is the patient's condition, according to the laws of the mainland, if it is a general disease and there is still hope for full recovery, at this time, the family chooses to "extubate" is actually an illegal act, and may even be suspected of "abandonment" and "intentional homicide".
If it is terminally ill and incurable, or even if you are on a ventilator and need to carry out "life intervention" as in the video, then the family can choose to give up the treatment and sign to the doctor for confirmation.
But another very important point in the video is that the patient himself does not want to end his life, and even clearly expresses that he wants to live, which raises the question: will the patient's will affect the final decision?
The answer is yes, after all, the patient himself has clearly stated that he is not willing to give up his life, so the family's unauthorized extubation behavior is naturally very controversial, and various investigations and discussions are needed to determine whether it is illegal.
Secondly, the so-called "extubation" does not mean that people go directly to the tube, but that when the hospital determines that the patient is critically ill and believes that it is difficult to have any hope of treatment, a family member comes forward to sign and confirm that the treatment is abandoned.
If the ventilator is pulled out directly without the permission of the hospital, then this situation is probably illegal, so how the family dealt with it needs further investigation.
In fact, there have been many discussions on the question of whether to "extubate", and different people will naturally have their own opinions on the different situations they face and the different environments they are exposed to.
But in this case, "deciding to extubate and recording a video and posting it on the Internet" is definitely not worth advocating.
In the end, I hope that there will be a suitable way to make such tragedies as few as possible. So what do you readers think about this?
Sources of information:
[1] Shimizu Release - Old man: "Don't extubate, I want to live", the family hesitated, but turned off the ventilator
[2] Quick Look Video - A 56-year-old patient was taken home by an ambulance, writing and begging not to be extubated and still wanting to live, and his family chose to cry