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4.5 AVERAGE
4.5 AVERAGE
If you can read this and not have a few (ok, a lot) of years, are you even human? Very eye opening and human. Well worth a read if you need a life affirming nudge.
Death is a universal experience. It does not discriminate, and it is something that will touch every life. It can be traumatic, harrowing, sad, peaceful for all involved. So what if you had an opportunity to decide, at the end of your life, when and where, and with whom could share the experience with you? In Canada, Dr Stefanie Green led the way in physician-administered assisted dying in Canada. She began her career bring life into the world, and now helps people to find their way through its last dignified moments.
After I finished this book, I sat for a while before writing this review and contemplated my life, and the decisions I would be able to make if I knew that the quality of life I once had could no longer be maintained. The whole idea about medical assisted dying is about life: what is meaningful to a person in how they wish to live. The whole idea of a “good death” – a peaceful one that ends suffering for the person and their loved ones, and one that maintains dignity. In “Assisted: A doctor's story of assisting death and embracing life: Dr Stefanie Green allows us to share those very intimate moments in an assisted death where she explores what each person is going through, their suffering and whether they understand what is happening, or will happen to them. . There are so many beautiful stories and accounts of the last hours of the lives of her patients. This insight we are provided with is precious, heart-warming and heartbreaking.
No doubt this book will open up many conversations and may be confronting and not be a topic for everyone, or one that everyone agrees with. However, it is a personal choice, as explained in this book, of the patients that Dr Green sees. It is about their right to live the way they want until the very end.
After I finished this book, I sat for a while before writing this review and contemplated my life, and the decisions I would be able to make if I knew that the quality of life I once had could no longer be maintained. The whole idea about medical assisted dying is about life: what is meaningful to a person in how they wish to live. The whole idea of a “good death” – a peaceful one that ends suffering for the person and their loved ones, and one that maintains dignity. In “Assisted: A doctor's story of assisting death and embracing life: Dr Stefanie Green allows us to share those very intimate moments in an assisted death where she explores what each person is going through, their suffering and whether they understand what is happening, or will happen to them. . There are so many beautiful stories and accounts of the last hours of the lives of her patients. This insight we are provided with is precious, heart-warming and heartbreaking.
No doubt this book will open up many conversations and may be confronting and not be a topic for everyone, or one that everyone agrees with. However, it is a personal choice, as explained in this book, of the patients that Dr Green sees. It is about their right to live the way they want until the very end.