End of life

a comment about neonatal end of life care

There's comfort care and there's treatment of disease. And when a person is in pain and dying-dying and ready to go, it makes sense to withdraw treatment of disease, even if that hastens death. Also then maybe you need more painkiller to compensate for taking away drugs that treat disease. Morphine takes away pain but also hastens death.

But then it can also go the other way. Like, maybe the hospice puts you on so much morphine that you're out of it, when really what you need is an on-demand pain pump so you can use less of it.

and dementia
an article I read about someone's successful end-of-life with support from her family

what do you want?

 * talking it through

how-to

 * The Complete Manual of Suicide (完全自殺マニュアル, Kanzen Jisatsu Manyuaru, lit. Complete Suicide Manual) is a Japanese book written by Wataru Tsurumi - ISBN	978-4-87233-126-4
 * Final Exit (fully titled Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying) - has multiple editions - isbn 0-440-50488-0
 * The Peaceful Pill Handbook - This is what the person highlighted in the dementia story mentioned above used to find an address that mailed her.