I’ve spoken to people whose family members have been on ketamine drips, huge amounts, a cocktail of drugs designed to manage their pain, they still die in agony even with the palliative care that we can offer.
Highlighting the inadequacies of current palliative care.
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It is time to do the same and give terminally ill people the choice to exercise some control over the manner of their deaths.
I guess it’s important to live life in the present, and saying things on social media – obviously, as I’ve experienced, if you don’t think it through properly – can be interpreted in a different way than you intended, and can really store…
All we are trying to do is put proper safeguards around this so people can die in a peaceful way instead of these horrible examples we are seeing in this country.
The voters put us here to tackle the big issues they care about, not to constantly kick them down the road.
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