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Deborah Orr recently listed 10 things not to say to someone who is seriously ill. Readers responded with their horror stories, guilty confessions and advice. Here are some highlights
"We don't talk about death or make preparations as we should. But you can't always stop dying being nasty, brutal or chaotic"
"Terminally ill patients are being “penalised” for having rare conditions charities have warned after a kidney cancer medication was ruled too expensive for the NHS. "
"Heavy sedation of patients in their final days prevents them from the opportunity of having a “good death”, according to the Roman Catholic Church. "
"Ann McPherson, author of Teenage Health Freak, says assisted dying should be option within palliative care"
"A desperately ill baby who has been in intensive care since birth should be allowed to die in peace or he will end up living a “miserable, sad and pitiful existence”, a court heard. "
"A mother supporting a legal attempt to take her severely disabled baby boy off the ventilator that keeps him alive said today her son's "intolerable suffering" had to outweigh her grief at his death.
The boy, known as RB for legal reasons, was born last year with a rare condition that severely limits the ability to breathe and move limbs."
"A mother at the centre of a legal wrangle over a gravely ill baby today told why she felt her son should be allowed to die.
Anthony Fairweather, a solicitor acting for the boy's mother, said: "RB’s mother has sat by her son’s bedside every day since he was born. Every day she has seen the pain he experiences just to survive. "
"A heartbroken mother took centre stage on Monday as the High Court was asked to let her seriously disabled son die.
She is backing a hospital's application for the year-old baby to be taken off life support.
The baby's father, however, insists he must live and says a simple operation could even lead to him being cared for at home. "
"Can there be a conversation more difficult for a mother than the one where you have to tell your children you have cancer?
The one where you have to prepare them for the fact that you have an illness that might kill you. An illness that, at the very least, will rob you of your hair and your strength, and take you away from them for long periods, while you fight for your survival in hospital."
"A fresh medical assessment is to be carried out on a baby boy at the centre of a "right-to-life" legal dispute, a High Court judge heard on Monday.
The one-year-old, known as Baby RB for legal reasons, was born with a rare, genetic muscle condition that makes it hard for him to breathe independently."
"One in five doctors admit to keeping the terminally-ill heavily sedated until they die, in what critics have dubbed 'slow euthanasia'.
A poll of nearly 3,000 doctors found that 18.7 per cent had administered drugs to keep patients suffering from painful conditions such as cancer unconscious for hours at a time."
"My mother went to heaven a month early. Being an actress, she was always a stickler for time: her fear of losing a job or arriving late for a performance or audition (unthinkable) ran deep. Arriving early was something she instilled in my brother and me almost from birth. We both arrived on time for that, too.
She didn't go to heaven before she had been through hell. An unnecessary hell that nobody should have to either go through or experience with a member of their family."
"Around a third of doctors say they have given drugs to terminally ill patients or withdrawn treatment, knowing or intending that it would shorten their life, research reveals.
A study of doctors in charge of the last hours of almost 3,000 people finds decisions almost always have to be made on whether to give drugs to relieve pain that could shorten life and whether to continue resuscitation and artificial feeding."
"NHS Bolton hosts the local End of Life Care (EoLC) Strategy but the ability to deliver care which meets the needs of individuals and their families and carers is very dependent on partnership working across the NHS, social services, the hospice and the voluntary sector."
"Doctors and nurses need more training in how to care for people who are dying, Mike Richards, the Government's cancer tsar, has said, following concerns over the controversial 'death pathway' scheme."
"Patients should not be resuscitated unless they have specifically agreed to the procedure, which can be traumatic and has “appalling” success rates, a doctor has urged. "
"Graham Taylor, one of Britain's best-selling international authors, is ending his career prematurely to look after his daughter, who has developed an incurable disease. "
"Concerns about the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway were first raised in The Daily Telegraph last month, when experts warned that some patients were being denied drugs and fluids after it had been wrongly decided that they were dying. "
"A MERSEYSIDE hospice is appealing for health bodies to pay more towards patients’ care to compensate for a drop in charity donations.
Jospice, in Crosby, is finding it harder to raise funds during the recession."
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