Such a quick answer for a solvable problem.
30 years ago people with terminal, painful illnesses went to England and received the Atomic cocktails that were illegal in the USA. These treatments using drugs not legal in high doses in the USA were a life saver. The Patients were treated with drugs that eased the pain and allowed the Patients to still have some mental clarity to fight for life, and recognise loved ones, read write and communicate with family. Some with pain gone were able to walk talk and interact with other patients.
Take a 24/7 migraine, life is hell, pain so severe the Patient cannot do more then lay in a dark room in agony. Given the correct dosage of medicine, the patient can be relieved of pain and function again. But what if the medication is Outlawed in the amount of dosage needed.
To believe that one must suffer this way for years on end, some people will ask for an out of the agony. Who can blame the patient for making that decision ???? The nursing staff that knows if they break the law to keep the patient pain free and functioning will destroy their own lives are the people that run from health care.
This is what medicine is all about, Physician, first do no harm. Difficult for a Doctor to have laws that will not allow them to give people a fighting chance at life, if for only one week of enjoying life.
People at times give up much too early on life, in Kevorkian's list of people he helped are a few people just depressed, in some cases just sending these people on a vacation will snap them out of it. Take them completely out of their cause for depression and stimulate them away from their problems. Give them a new look at the world, have them begin to start looking forward to each new day, new sights and life as they never seen before.
In the end they have to go home to the same old problems, BUT, getting them out of the mind set poor me------Spend a week in some African villages with people just trying to survive may make their problem seen too small to worry about.
I got this idea when working at TPI in VA. in a private hospital filled with quite a few Navy wives that were so stressed out from husbands gone and becoming weird from the pressures of being far from family and totally responsible for the kids and all the problems that arise.
All the therapy in the world is not as good as getting away from the problems for awhile, people off themselves when they believe there is no escape, day after day the same shit, no relief in sight. No future or change.-----Must say one of the reasons the Hospital worked out was it gave the Patients time off from their pressures, gave them a different environment and placed them with people with worse problems then their own.
Kevorkian would have had a field day at State run hospitals, he could have run up the carnage by 10 a day.
