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End of life care: Death is equally important

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“Death is not a simple end, it’s the victorious full stopping of a journey well spent..”

Health is wealth. And taking care of it starts the day when the fetus starts developing, from a zygote till an old man we pay full attention for our health. Then why not at the end where the journey successfully stops? This is a query that is to be much thought of. And there comes the importance of care of end life. Try to understand death is equally important as life.

The old picture

From the very early times, people have been treated well throughout their life for maintaining good health. But when it comes to the conclusion many are abandoned, not taken care of and considered useless. Nobody tries to understand their feelings. Even hospitals and families are not bothered about them. Neither could someone understand the condition they face nor could they comfort them.

The Changing Scenario

A new beginning was marked by introducing the end of life care policy. This attributes to the attainment of peace at the time of death. This includes not only the dying member but takes into consideration the feelings and conditions of his /her family.

The National Health Services now makes sure that the dying patient gets mental relief and not gets stressed up by fear of what’s next. Many NGO’s and other organizations have come up with this plan. Many charities have proved to be the best too.

Who takes up the responsibility?

This new attempt includes health care professionals, nurses, health assistants etc working together for ensuring a peaceful environment for the end of life care. The family member and the patients themselves are also an important part of this care.

Marie Curie-The perfect model

This is a most suitable example of a charity organization that works at peoples’ homes and communities along with families to make sure that people at the end of their life are supported to be cared for and die in the place of their choice. Not only this, but many others have also come forward with the same conceptual ideas.

A place to die

The place of death is equally important as other choices. People at the verge of death mostly prefer to stay at home because of their innate wish to die at their most blessed place. While almost 58% prefer to die at the hospital because of their belief that it is the safest place. Even when death is expected, medicines and treatment have been discontinued, and the hospitals have nothing left to do, still then the patient prefers to stay there.

What challenges the situation?

The lack of communicative and handling skills, skilled professionals and experienced hands is an indispensable challenge.

What’s Next?

People should be given awareness, more people should be trained and must be taught to handle these conditions. The focus should be given both on handling the patients’ feelings as well as their families.

Always remember life is the most beautiful creation whose beginning and end both proposes an art…..

Written by Ananya Chandra,

 BDS II year,

Manav Rachna Dental College

 

 

Letters from Kashmir

A few days back, a life stuck in the shadow of many a severe life-threatening drug, was finally caught and brought under the condition of normalcy. A life totally caught in the mire of severe drug addiction was restored.

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For me, one is addicted when one makes drugs a priority over life – the drugs that take the user far from normalcy and to the brink of ruining one’s identity! It is when one loses identity for the urge of drugs that one usually realizes the mistake. It is then that one realizes that all that the drugs gave in return was a life of dissolved potential and weird irrational personality; unconscious and unaware of worldly affairs.

Usually, people get into addiction due to some kind of stress that they undergo. It may be social religious etc. Most of the youth of the present generation are drug addicts because they may have passed through some types of criticism like due to their family standard, their weakness in education and other social issues.

A large number of our youth are also caught due to the perceived western influence on their minds. It completely changes our mindset and makes us feel that we are at the top of the world, but it actually ruins us down to the bottom. Some youth use cigarettes that makes them feel that it raises their social status, but they are unaware that it is actually wrong and makes their status to fall in society.

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Some of our genius youth crush a bit of charas and fetch a feeling of being a saint and claim to have achieved an ascetic tendency. Others fall in love and when they feel cheated, some might start indulging into drugs. Many a great minded youth of our country also get indulged with this evil of drug addiction because their potential is being crushed under the feet of some rich families who snatch, through corrupt practices, the rightful opportunities belonging to youth mid or lower class families who have worked for it. The youth suffer unemployment and begin to use drugs that later leads to suicides too.

Now! In the present era of development and education, there is an alarming need to control the addiction and save the youth and the future of our country. There are many ways to control addiction among youth as it can be controlled starting from grass root level to the next higher levels up to the highest level. This way the drug addiction can be completely neutralized in our country.

First, individuals can play a great role in diverting the attention of youth towards some social and religious work that will inculcate a feeling of motivation in their minds and make them stress-free. Hence, it will prevent them from using drugs.

Parents also have a vital role to play to drive this addiction out of our society by being more supportive of them, rather than being critical. This way their children won’t suffer any kind of stress and would possibly focus more on their studies. Additionally, there should also be social action on selling and availability of these drugs, especially to the youth.

Educational and other institutes can help a lot to destroy this evil of addiction by introducing youth to various athletic activities that will completely change the mind of youth about addiction. These institutes can also organize various debates and programs in view of the drug abuse thus control it a lot. The government must play a major role in driving the evil out by introducing various schemes for youth, generating employment and setting various rehabilitation centers up for the already addicted youth, so that they can rehabilitate and start their journey again with a new positive change. There should be a complete and effective ban the life-threatening drugs in the country and all the drug peddlers and sellers should be arrested as they are also a great cause for the ruin of the youth.

Finally, the steps against this biggest social evil should be made our top priority because if not controlled now, our country may suffer a lot and would be ruled my mindless cowards in future. And that would be the most frightening debt under which the country may soon drown.

Saqib Javed Dar (Anantnag)

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(Saqib Javed Dar is a Class XI student of Saint Peter’s International Academy, Anantnag, J&K. He studies science stream and aspires to be a future doctor and writer. He is also an avid writer and writes about his experiences of life.)