OH WOW... To see you, a person who has seen so much in her life, to see you get choked up like that sure helps understand how much you care for those in your charge! Thank you for sharing this story. The way you tell it, the whole event seems peaceful.
My dear brother just died, 5 days ago, using this method, after suffering 2 years and 8 months from ALS. It was dignified, there was the opportunity for sweet goodbyes, peace came to him on his terms. Sweet dreams my dear little brother♥️
You are a very strong and compassionate woman, Julie. I am glad you chose to devote your life and your heart to nursing. We would be so much poorer if you hadn't! Merry Christmas!
Asleep or paralyzed? It is like waterboarding. One medication paralyzes you so you can't do anything about it and the other medication allows for fluid to slowly accumulate in your lungs. So they are not sleep, they are sedated to a point of being paralyzed. If you are going to make a video to romaniticize this also tell us the names of the medications that are used so we can understand better what might really be happening within their system.
I’m 27 and I haven’t experienced anybody close to me, family or otherwise, passing. I can’t even fathom having to say goodbye. Even thinking of strangers saying goodbye to their loved ones makes me cry. My great granny is 97 now and time is getting short for her, but finding your videos has really helped me start to feel like it’s going to be okay.
I kinda feel the same solely from the fact I experienced my grandparents all passing around age 11. I was too young and innocent to really have it impact me significantly. I'm so scared to lose my mom. She had pancreatic cancer. I'll be 30 in a couple months and can't fathom a world without her. Even the thoughts are unbearable and I just completely lose it.
I work in Palliative Oncology and have been involved with patients choosing M.A.I.D. With this being such a tremendous decision, it is UNETHICAL TO MAKE A PERSON FEEL THEY ARE TRAPPED IN SUCH A FINAL DECISION!! It is NEVER a “NOW OR NEVER” commitment with “NO GOING BACK”. A patient ALWAYS has bodily autonomy and ABSOLUTELY CAN OPT OUT AT ANY POINT! Physicians should be checking in with the patient regularly and throughout the set up of the procedure to remind them that this is final and permanent, and to be sure this is what the patient truly wants. It doesn’t matter if the paperwork is done, the drink is mixed, or the sedative is being administered, YOU CAN ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS CHANGE YOUR MIND!
As someone with a terminal illness I thank you for this. Someone who's never dealt with a serious illness like that can't really understand just how hard it is. They fall in love with the idea of the terminally ill person that beats the disease and has their hollywood ending that they don't realize how many of us never really recover. Even some who survive never recover. Sometimes we fight and fight until we have nothing left.
Love your videos... they have really taught me what to expect and I appreciate it... yes I am in really bad health... my days are numbered.. just waiting for the good lord to call me home.. takes a special person to work in hospice... my x worked with hospice
I hope and pray that my ridiculous state (Pennsylvania) will allow us to die with dignity if I get to that point in my life. My biggest fear is having to suffer for years with an excruciatingly painful illness before I die. I wish I had the means to move to a state that allows you to avoid the painful, humiliating, diaper wearing years. I do not ever want to end up in a nursing home. I worked at one and mornings were horrible! We'd wake the residents up around 6 am, basically violate them with a washcloth, and then set them up for breakfast. That is no way to spend the rest of your life.
The way you described your job is the way I am living now. I am not ill. Both legs are contracted due to an accident. I feel fine but sad that I just lay in bed. I’m coming up on 10 years this year. I live in Oregon, but since I’m not sick, I will lay here until I am.
The state is trying to stop the death of the west and youth in asia from the nazi like democrats. You should know. Why wait for the state to tell you what you can do anyway, heroin will do the same thing, cheaper. When the rebels have lost their rebellion
I’m in PA, also. From the time of Kevorkian I’ve been a proponent of dying with dignity, until recently. Even with stage 4 breast cancer and kidney failure myself. After seeing what Canada has turned their assisted dying program into, can no longer support it, unfortunately. If we got it here, it would turn into the same situation they’ve got going on, I’m afraid. Theirs is called MAID, and they’re trying to get anyone having a simple bad day to go thru with it. It’s really disgusting and evil. Looking at what we just sent to the Senate, I don’t trust us one bit not to do the same as Canada.
Julie, thank you so much for all the support your videos provided me the last couple weeks. Mom passed peacefully yesterday after a couple weeks in hospice. Hospice stopped 22 of mom’s 24 medication‘s. Mom had very good mental clarity after the medication‘s were stopped until the end. ❤
Thank you for this beautiful offering of revealing the sensitive important information about the different significant elements of the dying process and what is now more and more available 🌹🙏🏼
I wish I could give you a hug. You are a beautiful courageous woman and will always be in my thoughts and prayers. If you ever need a hug or someone to lean on just reach out. And don't forget to take time for yourself as this is a tremendous weight to carry alone. Be safe always. 🙏❤️
Asleep or paralyzed? It is like waterboarding. One medication paralyzes you so you can't do anything about it and the other medication allows for fluid to slowly accumulate in your lungs. So they are not sleep, they are sedated to a point of being paralyzed. If you are going to make a video to romaniticize this also tell us the names of the medications that are used so we can understand better what might really be happening within their system.
@@KatiraAZ Midazolam, Propofol and Rocuronium. And 1 hour before the mix you need to take something for nausea. In approximately 3500 cases there were complications in 41 cases (1.2%). Generally a complication percentage of 1.2% will I say is acceptable, but that is just my opinion. Source: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8920593/
@@Tootsiepop420 The mountains are an hour one way & the ocean an hour the other. Moved here in '85, Eugene was a good place to raise children! Now the grandchildren are all teens. It's been a nice life. I expect you feel the same about Vermont. Here's to good states!
What a blessing you are to do many of us. My mom committed suicide @ home when I was 17. I found her & tried to recessitate her until the paramedics came. I wish I had known about the breathing back then because when I visited her in the hospital I had no idea what was going on. That was 46 yrs ago. I only found your channel 6 months ago & I am so thankful for your knowledge and willing to share your experiences. I understand what was going on with my mom. I think we need to educate everyone so that the transitions help the living cope. You are so cool! May the holidays bring you many blessings. 💝💖🙋🏼♀️
Hi Nurse Julie, My Dad died 11-11-2003, pancreatic cancer. My sister in law bought me and my siblings a book called Final Gifts. It's stories written from Hospice Nurses from all over the world. The stories were combined and a book was made. I read this book front to back, page by page, one page at a time again and again. Final Gifts helped me understand what my dying Dad was going through. Unfortunately my sister nor my brother even opened their book so they would laugh at my Dad and tell him he was nuts when he communicated with the other side or the Spirit World. I felt blessed to be able to witness that. I've Loved Hospice Nurses every since and I Love You! Thank You for sharing your stories I find peace in them.
This is my aunts last week on this earth and watching this really helped me understand what’s going to happen. The cancer spread throughout her body and actually broke her spine and she’s in a lot of pain.I’m really glad it will be peaceful and painless when she goes. Life is crazy, hug your loved ones extra hard and try to put more good into this world.
Thanks for everything you do, Julie! 💕 My granny was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer 1.5 months ago and has decided to use MAID (medical assistance in dying) and will be doing so on Thursday. I started following you and Penny a few months ago and I'm so grateful for everything you ladies have taught me. I'm currently taking a leave of absence from work to care for her. I'm no longer afraid of death or the dying process, whereas 9 months ago I would've been terrified to be in the position I'm in. Sending love from 🇨🇦
I have been in the presence of a few family members that have passed due to age or illness and found it to be a privilege to witness. It’s not scary or morbid. It was like you feel their peace at being released from the burden of their physical body. Thanks for teaching us and helping so many people.
Wow, that sounds like a very intense experience. I do not agree with assisted dying but that is MY belief and I am not here to argue with anyone about it. I have sat with people who are actively dying, some family, some friends and some total strangers and it is a very moving experience.
Well, atleast you didn't call it assisted suicide. Some people aren't as respectful about sharing their opinions. You certainly avoided trying to offend anyone. You and I aren't in agreement but I respect your opinion, assuming you respect a person's right not to suffer despite you disagreeing with the method. It is a serious matter, considering it involves human life, abd it's controversial to some - so I respect that. As a pro-life advocate I have to respect that opinion, and understand where people are coming from in that aspect. Abortion is a completely different thing and it's controversial for it's own reasons but I get why someone wouldn't agree with this. And it's rooted by the same morals and compassion of pro-life advocacy - the belief that human life has intrinsic value. In all fairness- these are people who have lived their lives and are choosing not to suffer during their final hours, so that they may pass peacefully with dignity - that's much different than a child who didn't make the choice to have their entire life experience of loving and having children of their own just stripped away from them - like they were nothing. Nothing is more evil than infanticide. I had a person say that hospice care are equivalent to abortion clinics. I'm not much for insults or ad hominem remarks but... I do hope that person grows taste buds in their butthole.
Respectfully, my opinion wasn't about "offending" anyone! Interestingly enough when our society talks about "morality" where does it come from? Of course secularism says it comes from us, but it doesn't, that's subjective "morality". There is an objective morality that, again, this securalist society and government moved away from and that's God! He created us, gave us life, grace and mercy! We, as a society, don't give these things to each other! Our life is not out life, it's his! To remove God from the equation, everything is just a matter of opinion! Just look at mankind's history and you'll a long list of of horrible tyrants that took human life because they convinced everyone they were god!
Thank you so much for posting these videos and explaining the dying process. I lost my Grammie in 1994 to pancreatic cancer. I hope it's okay if I share my story of what happened the night she passed away. I was 13 years old and she died 11:51pm. I felt like someone sat on the edge of my bed and when I looked up, I saw my gram. It was 11:53pm. She held my hand but couldn't speak but I heard her voice. She told me when I see something like a butterfly or dragonfly she's telling me she loves me and she's okay. It was less than 30 seconds but the feeling I felt when she took my hand was unlike anything I had ever felt before. It can only be described as genuine and unconditional love and it was so warm and beautiful. A few nights later, I had a dream of seeing my gram in this huge golden dining room with other family members and no one was speaking but I could hear bits of the conversations and she was so happy to be with her husband, friends and other family members. It really put me in place where I knew she was truly happy and it really helped me to begin the healing process. Thank you so much for what you do. God bless you today and everyday.
My mother wanted the death with dignity option. She went through the interview process and had the medication delivered. She never used it. I wished we were better educated in the fact that when my mom stopped eating and drinking she would only have a couple days of consciousness left. That would of been the time to have the conversation about taking the medication. Once she slipped away into unconsciousness it took four more days before she passed. Love this post.
These seem both to be such odd comments. Four days of unconsciousness before death seems very mild. Such little suffering, why would you need the medication? And the fact that it was a "blessing" that doesn't make sense either. It's not like she didn't take it and recovered. I hope we are not talking about rellgion again with this one. I am on the side of people, not religion. @@kbro7484
This is valuable information, and I appreciate your candour and insight. Thank you for all your work and for sharing your experiences. You are priceless. IMO
All U.S. states need to implement this! People seem to think that it will mean anybody can get this cocktail and die. Its not going to be given out to a suicidal person nor can someone's relative decide to get it for grandma. Please educate yourselves and push for this to be available everywhere.
I think we also need to accept that suicidal people have rights too. Whether its chronic physical illness or intractable mental illness, if someone says they are done we should respect that. Fix us or let us go.
Hospice care isn't legal in all states?! Smfh. I wasn't aware of that. I'm going to have to research which ones. That's terrible. And you're right, it's nothing like that clinic in Canada that does "same day/walk in available" assisted suicide. Those who say it's no different than suicide or abortion can't be educated- their brains are permanently underdeveloped and their narrow minded thought process is pedantic at best. I'm amazed they're even bipedal and can read. Ignorance is a side effect for the inability or persistent refusal to see or consider nuance. There is no changing their minds. Even though the majority agree - that hospice care is a necessary service and highly important- I find it awfully hubristic that even a small minority are against it and are advocating against it in the guise of social justice. Just another group of woke cultured karens
@@joecheffo5942I get what you're saying, but that's a very slippery slope. I strongly disagree, it's a recipe for disaster and even if it were put into legislation, it will fail. Just as it will in Canada. How do we discern or determine whether or not a person's condition is untreatable? And who sets the standards of what can be deemed treatable or not? And if "not", why hasn't tranquilizers been a last resort method before death? Who sets the guidelines and thresholds of what is medically untreatable and whether or not death is a moral method? The "experts"? Who are the "experts"? Politicians alone or an "expert" panel of selected psychologists to make the legislative recommendations? Even though i think it's a bad idea to implement such a law - it would still be better if we turn to science on this - it's bad enough that politicians abuse the power they have over our lives, having their hands in telling us we can choose our own death is too dangerous considering so many of them aren't suitable for the responsibilities they already have. But even if we asked the world's most renowned psychologists to create these paradoxical parameters for us - good luck with that. Besides, is it really moral to put it in their hands? Does a PHD and understanding of neuroscience automatically mean that they're the point of authority on this matter? Because people with PHD's can still be all about bullshit, or be immoral, and don't have any expertise or offer anything useful to their field of study. Some of them just simply got good grades or just enough to finish their education to be merited with a doctorate. It doesn't mean they have any kind of credibility. And how do we gauge a person's credibility as relevant to such a matter? Additionally, our lives aren't our own. They don't truly belong to us and we have no right taking away what was given
@@joecheffo5942 I 100% agree with you. Some of us are just afraid to fail at the attempt and end up worse off than we are now. Something like this seems easy, painless and peaceful. I would drink it this very moment if I could.
I remember a special patient I had as a LPN on a med-surg floor. His wife had had a heart attack so she could not lift him. I dortounded him and his wife for 4 hours as he passed. I will never forget him. I had taken care of him before so he was a special person. His wife saw me a few mos later and remembered my face
Thank you for sharing this. The ability to make this choice needs to be available to everyone. The fact that it isn't shows how little lawmakers care about other humans.
LIE!!! You are given a paralysing sedative.. You are FROZEN I SIDE and you DROWN IN YOUR OWN FLUIDS Autopsy ALL SHOW YOU HAVE DROWNED INTERNALLY The drug is made in Italy and is the SAME as what USA PRISONS USE In executions.. You LOOK PEACEFUL OUTSIDE but its like a sleep apnea dream you KNOW YOU ARENT BREATHING but you wake up and gasp.. only NOT IN THIS CASE The Oral version takes up to 24 hours to kill you the INJECTED version takes 16 to 20 minutes This is a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE WAY TO DIE
I have decided I WILL do this if I ever get to that point. I am 64 an healthy now but if ever that changes I have options and I feel less scared if it does. Thank you for making it feel so peaceful!
Religious fanatics run the US. You can only get it in some states and only if terminally ill. The fanatics push their beliefs on everyone else unfortunately, instead of just optiing not to do it@@EH1216
I had a cousin Donna, that as kids, I had been very close to. Both of her parents died with Alzheimer's or dementia. Her sister who was married had been in a facility for about 20 years. She also had dementia. My male cousin, her brother also had passed with Alzheimer's or dementia. Donna had been diagnosed several years ago with dementia. A year and a half ago she took an intentional overdose of sleeping pills and died in her sleep. She lived in a state that did not have this option. When I spoke with her husband, after Donna had passed, I let him know my beliefs of the difference between suicide and SELF DETERMINATION. Donna made the most difficult choice to spare here family the grief of watching your loved one slowly evaporate, the cost of long term care, the possibility of violence driven by the disease, and a long slow death. My heart breaks that she was not able to be surrounded by her loved ones and was not supported in her choice. She watched her whole family succumb to these diseases. She knew what her out come was going to be. We as adults, being of sound mind, not depressed, should be able to make our life choices. If we have cancer, don't we have the choice to have chemotherapy? If we have a gangrenous wound on a leg, don't we get the choice of treatment or amputation? Working as an RN in ICU, I have seen life saving techniques used, knowing fully well that for that specific situation, the outcome would be the same. The patient was going to die. I have heard doctors tell the family that the patient had a 50/50 chance of survival. What was NOT SAID.... WAS WHAT WOULD BE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE IF THEY SURVIVED. RARELY WILL A PATIENT RETURN TO THEIR PREVIOUS LEVEL OF FUNCTIONING. Please, think of your choices and what you want and how you want your passing or your loved one's to be. If it is too painful or emotional to talk about, than write it down. Have it witnessed. Donna's older sister who had been in a facility for nearly 20 years passed away 5 weeks ago. That whole family is gone. From my Mom's dearest sister and beloved brother in law to all 3 of their children. None of us are getting out of here alive. Death is just the vehicle to carry us from this plane of existence to the next. This place called Earth was never designed to be our final home. I'm looking forward to that great reunion day that I walk on the streets of gold and embrace my husband and son once again. And all those that have gone before me. Be blessed. Be kind. Be patient.
That was absolutely perfect that took us right from the beginning to write to the end and that's what I think we needed to hear what was it or what is it really like and you explain that so perfectly and I do thank you and I'm sure a whole lot of other people thank you God bless you for the work that you do keep it up and keep posting
At any point did you explain that their loved one was actually drowning to death, for an hour, while paralyzed & unable to tell anyone what was happening or if they'd changed their mind once the effects set in?
Concerning new information has come out that the MAID cocktail first paralyzes the body then fills the lungs with water. So the person is drowning over that 45mins but cannot physically move bc of the paralytic. So we actually dont know the level of suffering. Thats potentially awful and horrific.
It is a central nervous system depressant. I don't know where you got that information but it sounds like propaganda from the ones who don't want people to have this available.
Thank you for this video. A dear friend of mine passed on her own terms earlier this month. She had glioblastoma. I wasn't there when she passed so this video has helped me with processing the loss.
I’m currently coming up on three years of dealing with ALS. I am now 34 years old and I’m realizing the amount of strain that this is causing my wife, my family. Everyone wants to help but I can see how exhausted they are, specifically my wife. She is the strongest person I have ever met and I am so grateful for her but I’m just so tired and seeing the toll that this is taking on her is devastating me. This is something that I am actively looking into, although it was explained to me as a series of injections.
Thanks for sharing your experience. A friend of mine did this. She bought the medication. It was very expensive and cash only for obvious reasons. I was not there, but our mutual friends were. I am glad she was legally allowed to do this. There is medication patosin to bring us into the world, there are also meds to take us out. It was not for monetary gain. It was all about the friend.
Even if the are out...they are probably drowning and can not move because of paralysis. The meds paralyze and put to sleep like anesthesia and then the body shuts down. It's sick that this is now accepted in our society. Suffering is a part of life and often death. That doesn't mean we get to skip it. God bless!
@@crystalgilliam3006 well for starters it paralyzes you and it can take up from 45min to 24 hours for you to die during which your lungs fill with fluids
To love is to suffer for or with the loved one, not to help him to end his life. I can only imagine why a friend would help a person to hurt himself, and there is no beauty on it. In the other hand, if people are just atheist, it is understandable that they think this is a solution, but it is not.
That is so wonderful. I was there when my grandfather turned his face to the wall and stopped eating and when he passed three days later. My grandmother also died at home. It’s just so much better.
We should be helping people not killing people. I honestly can not believe what humanity has come to and to see so many people here agreeing with this M.A.I.D practice is very alarming. Shame on all of you. People need to be loved and cared for and to know they matter.
There was a study done that has proved during the “45 minutes” while they are dying, essentially even though they are “asleep” that they are drowning in their own fluids and technically struggling for that entire time before they finally die. Is this something you are aware of? I can’t exactly see that as “dying with dignity”
Asleep or paralyzed? It is like waterboarding. One medication paralyzes you so you can't do anything about it and the other medication allows for fluid to slowly accumulate in your lungs. So they are not sleep, they are sedated to a point of being paralyzed. If you are going to make a video to romaniticize this also tell us the names of the medications that are used so we can understand better what might really be happening within their system.
Midazolam, Propofol and Rocuronium. In that order, but 1 hour before Midazolam you take something for nausea. Source: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8920593/
After watching this l feel even more determined to act as a campaign awareness advocat for changes in the law to be made in England. As a person in palliative end stage illness all l have wanted is for a choice " my choice" as to how l wish to end my journey of extreme pain and discomfort, ongoing fights with the medical proffesion to assist in making me comfortable. After a period of time in a hospice l chose to die at home, l have no family to support me and honestly feel the only reason l cling on is because l need to be a voice for those here where l live. One that gives hope that one day the barbaric way so many are left to suffer for longer periods of time all because others like to play God. Travelling abroad an option indeed but by the time we reach that stage frequently the trip is just too much to take. I praise everything you have accomplished during your recovery and afterwards nursejulie, and l thank every day you help others in their actively dying stage to be at peace, pain free and most of all loved.
You have to realize that when you say, "others like to play God", that to some people that means taking their death into their own hands too, which for many is not the right way to go with death and dying. Each person has the right to make the decision, but some people do not believe that it is right to kill yourself either. Just realize that please.
Is this the same medications used in MAIDS? Today was the only time I ever put any thought into the topic so I haven't formed an opinion on ethical aspects of the practice. I watched a Ted Talk about it and another video that essentially came to the conclusion that it was possibly a horrible way to go and likened it to being waterboarded and drowning but also being under a paralytic. Sometimes for several hours before passing. After suffering sleep paralysis that sounds mortifying literally and figuratively. Thanks for sharing the knowledge you have on the subject.
From a non-judgmental faith-filled perspective. I honor your kindness, empathy, care and the love I heard in your voice. I couldn't do it though not for any reason but for the fact that God and not me is the Arbiter of life and death. Speaking from the heart and for myself, I will take whatever my redeemer sends whenever he sends it. I surrender all. In this time of Advent, in this context, come Lord Jesus Takes on new meaning and new profundity.
That’s absolutely your decision but I’m incredibly glad that this is available in several states. I have a great deal of faith myself and I believe that He 100% gives us free will to make our own decisions and if someone is diagnosed with a horribly painful terminal illness that causes endless suffering and pain absolutely everybody should have the option of MAID if it’s something they want. I also think He doesn’t want us suffering endlessly which is why we have access to countless treatments and medicines and again why I think MAID is a blessing as well after awhile depending on what it a person is going through there is only so much agony and pain a body can take some diseases are absolutely brutal with the toll they take on a person.
So well said, Colleen. God bless you. I think because there is such a lack of understanding and/or belief in the truth of redemptive suffering, it's a challenge for many people to reach this conclusion, even when they have hearts that are trying to do 'good'. God is the ultimate Good and the Author of life and death. I myself am a disabled person who suffers much. I'm 41 and have been largely suffering great dehabilitation for about 13 yrs now. I'm largely homebound. All this while homeschooling my daughter, whose birth seemed to start the activation of the genetic disease and companies harshest effects. She has inherited my conditions. I'm so grateful I came to understand the grace of redemptive suffering very shortly before my life entered this stage. I likely would have ended it all by now. Short of a miracle of healing. I'm looking at living the rest of my innumerable years like an 80 year old...in fact most 80s I know have much better quality of life than myself! 🤣 But the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away...Blessed be the Lord. Say a prayer for me and my little family if you, Colleen. I'm offering up 3 Aves for you as soon as I sign off.
@@allisgrace1313 I'm not quite sure what to write because nothing I can say can change your situation or express the sorrow I felt when I first read your reply. Is your daughter at peace with her situation? I pray so and I promise you I will pray for you both. I lost my father 4 years ago but it seems like yesterday and I hear him now gently reminding me that this is not heaven. One of the great insights of the Catholic Church is the realization that God can and does reveal Himself in and through many different things and circumstances. That's why Sola Scriptura doesn't work. We are His adopted sons and daughters and since we share in His suffering willingly as he realized the victory of His Passion, it's Redemptive. We know that and therein lies our joy, peace and Hope. It's still hard though. I think of the words of the Salve Regina... morning and weeping in this veil of Tears. You Are Not Alone. Jesus is carrying both of us. I send you prayers and strength and heartfelt requests and persistent ones at that for healing. God bless you and your family.
The medication alone is over $700. Many times this option is not available until the patient is in severe disease decompensation, but that may have changed.
This sounds so good. I definitely need this. I’m a disabled and retired three-tour vet, former LEO, former educator. I’ve been costing the government too much money and just need to go. I need death with dignity to save my society from paying for me , not just the medical but the tax-free pensions (DoD and VA). I’m just ready to go here. I don’t want anyone there; this just needs to be quick. Your organization will get a kickback check from the govt bc they’ll be saving A LOT once I’m off the govt pensions. Please where do I get this done at? And don’t worry about disposal, your staff can just throw me down a dumpster chute after I’m asleep, no need to wait for me to die, just send me where I belong, with the trash. I’m ready. Let’s do this.
I've only had one like this . Here we call it M.A.I.D. ..The difference between the 2 types is night and day .knowing and leaving on your terms VS. Uncertainties and extended time and difficulties causes a fear . I certainly understand the need for these educations in public life
Ilearned of this after my dad passed away, he would have done this if we would have known. He asked a couple times to just be able to die but I didn't know...😑 After he passed away I saw a documentary called How to die in Oregon, and You don't know Jack. I was obsessed with this after seeing my dad suffer. If I had the gumption I would become a Hospice nurse just to help in last stage of life care and make sure that option was known.( the schooling though ..ugh) I love your videos, thank you for sharing your experiences.
A friend of mine recently entered hospice due to Stage 4 terminal cancer and will be taking this step in just a few days. Our church held a lovely celebration of life service in his honour today ❤️❤️
In Canada they have a maid program and from what I’ve heard what they are given first basically paralyzes their body and then they are given something else which from what I hear causes them to actively drown, like being water boarded. Since their body is in this paralyzed state, they cannot more or show the fear and horror they are going through. How is maid different from what you are explaining?
@@KKbaby1111 your info is false. As someone who works in healthcare they are given a relaxing sedative followed by propofal usually which is given in a much higher dose then what’s given in surgery thus putting them in a coma and if that hadn’t already stopped the breathing then they are given a paralysis medication which does stop breathing followed by death. The procedure is painless and they are totally unconscious. No they do not drown in fluids. Most of the comments are so ignorant of facts and are scaremongering.
Julie, bless you for giving dignity in death...to those who want to leave this plane with whatever fiber they have left. Especially after our bodies have been ravaged by sickness and age. I honestly hope that you have a blessed Holiday and Peace in your heart ❤. My sister Roxann finally made her exit on October 4th. In life she did EVERYTHING on her terms...this was no different, I know she CHOSE her time. She, waited for me to be gone...always the eternal pisspot...still did it all her own way.
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What is the name of the medication? Because I heard it was like drowning sometimes for like 20 minutes?
This may sound like a ridiculous question, but as someone who just cannot drink liquid meds of any kind, how much does the patient have to swallow, and do you have any idea what it tastes like (not by experience, of course!)? Everyone I know who has been with their precious pet during its euthanasia has commented on how we wish we could choose that option for ourselves. I just connected with Outpatient Palliative Care through Kaiser, and I know Kaiser offers the end-of-life care option. May transition to hospice at some point.
It's a very bitter 2 oz medication. They recommend practising swallowing water until you can. It can also be given by nasogastric, feeding tube or rectal tube, if needed. The state of washington has a wonderful resource about how the medication is administered.
I had no idea this was even a thing. Let alone it was legal. I'm in Australia, as far as I know you can't do this. Maybe I'm incorrect. Obviously these people are at the end if their life. Their chosiing to go when, & with their own dignity as such. I've always hoped and believe this would eventually be legal.💙🤞 I'm sad😔😥 2 say though, I'm positive it's not allowed here. Yet hopefully or even better, I hope I'm wrong. If anyone reads this as it ls lengthy. If u know please let me know.. Cheers. I Just 💜 this lovely Nurse/lady's stories. She gives me so much comfort. I've always believed there more to dying than just a black nothing. The more conformation though the better. Also the calmer, & extra recognition makes feel it's true. Not even 4 me so much. I love knowing more 4 my loved one's. Bless them all. 🙏😇❤️ Thanks for sharing all your lovely stories... 👌☺️
So my dad passed away on the 4th of July in 2017 and he went in for 'pain management ' but never came out. During his stay a few days before he died (he went in on a Thursday and died on that following Tuesday) they brought up this med that they said basically disconnected his brain from his body and they said after he takes that, there's no coming back from it. Is that the same thing ur talking about here? I was against that but unfortunately I didn't have medical POA over him.
This has to be so hard, but I can understand the thought process behind it. I don't know that I would ever be able to help a patient perform this procedure just because of my own past struggles with S. Ideation, but I can recognize that it has its place. It's better than seeing them take matters into their own hands in a way that would cause them pain and suffering and wouldn't even necessarily have their desired result. Have you (or anyone involved in this particular area of the field) ever seen or heard of family members trying to smack the medication out of their hands or otherwise stop them?
It does. For organs to be donated you need to die in the hospital, not at home. You cannot use organs from a dead body, they need to have a continual supply of oxygenated blood in order to remain functional. There is a procedure called organ donation euthanasia, where the person gets anaesthesia and then dies of the removal of the organs. This is very rare though and strictly regulated. It can only be on request of the patient and even then it is not easy to get permission, because of the moral implications. I am from Europe and I am not sure if this exists in the USA.
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OH WOW... To see you, a person who has seen so much in her life, to see you get choked up like that sure helps understand how much you care for those in your charge!
Thank you for sharing this story. The way you tell it, the whole event seems peaceful.
Thank you Julie for all that you do. You bring a sense of peace to your followers, at least you do for me.
My dear brother just died, 5 days ago, using this method, after suffering 2 years and 8 months from ALS. It was dignified, there was the opportunity for sweet goodbyes, peace came to him on his terms. Sweet dreams my dear little brother♥️
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Love through the ether to you and your beloved brother ♥️
My Uncle had ALS. Its awful and heartbreaking. Sending you so much love. ❤
((Hugs))❤
big hugs.
You are a very strong and compassionate woman, Julie. I am glad you chose to devote your life and your heart to nursing. We would be so much poorer if you hadn't! Merry Christmas!
Asleep or paralyzed? It is like waterboarding. One medication paralyzes you so you can't do anything about it and the other medication allows for fluid to slowly accumulate in your lungs. So they are not sleep, they are sedated to a point of being paralyzed. If you are going to make a video to romaniticize this also tell us the names of the medications that are used so we can understand better what might really be happening within their system.
I’m 27 and I haven’t experienced anybody close to me, family or otherwise, passing. I can’t even fathom having to say goodbye. Even thinking of strangers saying goodbye to their loved ones makes me cry. My great granny is 97 now and time is getting short for her, but finding your videos has really helped me start to feel like it’s going to be okay.
Say everything you need to say now. Write her a letter, even. Have no regrets. Now is the time. ❤️
Death is a part of life. something that every living thing on this earth must experience. Without death there’d be no life
I kinda feel the same solely from the fact I experienced my grandparents all passing around age 11. I was too young and innocent to really have it impact me significantly. I'm so scared to lose my mom. She had pancreatic cancer. I'll be 30 in a couple months and can't fathom a world without her. Even the thoughts are unbearable and I just completely lose it.
Is she dead yet?
I work in Palliative Oncology and have been involved with patients choosing M.A.I.D. With this being such a tremendous decision, it is UNETHICAL TO MAKE A PERSON FEEL THEY ARE TRAPPED IN SUCH A FINAL DECISION!! It is NEVER a “NOW OR NEVER” commitment
with “NO GOING BACK”.
A patient ALWAYS has bodily autonomy and ABSOLUTELY CAN OPT OUT AT ANY POINT! Physicians should be checking in with the patient regularly and throughout the set up of the procedure to remind them that this is final and permanent, and to be sure this is what the patient truly wants.
It doesn’t matter if the paperwork is done, the drink is mixed, or the sedative is being administered, YOU CAN ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS CHANGE YOUR MIND!
God bless you!>!!
As someone with a terminal illness I thank you for this. Someone who's never dealt with a serious illness like that can't really understand just how hard it is. They fall in love with the idea of the terminally ill person that beats the disease and has their hollywood ending that they don't realize how many of us never really recover. Even some who survive never recover. Sometimes we fight and fight until we have nothing left.
Love your videos... they have really taught me what to expect and I appreciate it... yes I am in really bad health... my days are numbered.. just waiting for the good lord to call me home.. takes a special person to work in hospice... my x worked with hospice
I send you much love Scott.
The Lord is love and light.
His heart and mercy are always full of compassion and infinite love.
Be blessed 🙏💙
I hope and pray that my ridiculous state (Pennsylvania) will allow us to die with dignity if I get to that point in my life. My biggest fear is having to suffer for years with an excruciatingly painful illness before I die. I wish I had the means to move to a state that allows you to avoid the painful, humiliating, diaper wearing years. I do not ever want to end up in a nursing home. I worked at one and mornings were horrible! We'd wake the residents up around 6 am, basically violate them with a washcloth, and then set them up for breakfast. That is no way to spend the rest of your life.
I'm in PA also. Are there any movements that you know of to allow this? We shouldn't have to move to another state for this human right.
The way you described your job is the way I am living now. I am not ill. Both legs are contracted due to an accident. I feel fine but sad that I just lay in bed. I’m coming up on 10 years this year. I live in Oregon, but since I’m not sick, I will lay here until I am.
The state is trying to stop the death of the west and youth in asia from the nazi like democrats. You should know.
Why wait for the state to tell you what you can do anyway, heroin will do the same thing, cheaper.
When the rebels have lost their rebellion
@Brandon Atkinson Hey there, fellow Yinzer! 🙋🏻♀️ Westmoreland County here!
I’m in PA, also. From the time of Kevorkian I’ve been a proponent of dying with dignity, until recently. Even with stage 4 breast cancer and kidney failure myself. After seeing what Canada has turned their assisted dying program into, can no longer support it, unfortunately. If we got it here, it would turn into the same situation they’ve got going on, I’m afraid. Theirs is called MAID, and they’re trying to get anyone having a simple bad day to go thru with it. It’s really disgusting and evil. Looking at what we just sent to the Senate, I don’t trust us one bit not to do the same as Canada.
Julie, thank you so much for all the support your videos provided me the last couple weeks. Mom passed peacefully yesterday after a couple weeks in hospice. Hospice stopped 22 of mom’s 24 medication‘s. Mom had very good mental clarity after the medication‘s were stopped until the end. ❤
You have my sincere condolences. It's hard to lose a parent❤
My mom died November 30, also on hospice (thank God), & I also want to thank you, Julie, for these videos. They have been so helpful. ❤️
Thank you for this beautiful offering of revealing the sensitive important information about the different significant elements of the dying process and what is now more and more available 🌹🙏🏼
I wish I could give you a hug. You are a beautiful courageous woman and will always be in my thoughts and prayers. If you ever need a hug or someone to lean on just reach out. And don't forget to take time for yourself as this is a tremendous weight to carry alone. Be safe always. 🙏❤️
This video will help so many people and put them more at ease. Thank-you Nurse Julie.
Asleep or paralyzed? It is like waterboarding. One medication paralyzes you so you can't do anything about it and the other medication allows for fluid to slowly accumulate in your lungs. So they are not sleep, they are sedated to a point of being paralyzed. If you are going to make a video to romaniticize this also tell us the names of the medications that are used so we can understand better what might really be happening within their system.
@@KatiraAZ Midazolam, Propofol and Rocuronium. And 1 hour before the mix you need to take something for nausea. In approximately 3500 cases there were complications in 41 cases (1.2%). Generally a complication percentage of 1.2% will I say is acceptable, but that is just my opinion. Source: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8920593/
Just another reason I choose Vermont to live in. All of us should be given this choice.
Vermont allows you to die with dignity?
Oregon state here, we voted in the Death With Dignity act years ago. Am thankful to have the choice also!
@@laurierice7687 Oregon was the other state I considered to go to in my 50s
@@Tootsiepop420 The mountains are an hour one way & the ocean an hour the other. Moved here in '85, Eugene was a good place to raise children! Now the grandchildren are all teens. It's been a nice life. I expect you feel the same about Vermont. Here's to good states!
@@laurierice7687 I kept having DREAMS. (I'm born and bred in TEXAS!!!!) For whatever reason....I attached it to Oregon. Lol I'm I'm Vermont.
You are such an amazing ,caring person....love you too!
What a blessing you are to do many of us. My mom committed suicide @ home when I was 17. I found her & tried to recessitate her until the paramedics came. I wish I had known about the breathing back then because when I visited her in the hospital I had no idea what was going on. That was 46 yrs ago. I only found your channel 6 months ago & I am so thankful for your knowledge and willing to share your experiences. I understand what was going on with my mom. I think we need to educate everyone so that the transitions help the living cope. You are so cool! May the holidays bring you many blessings. 💝💖🙋🏼♀️
Hi Nurse Julie,
My Dad died 11-11-2003, pancreatic cancer. My sister in law
bought me and my siblings a book called Final Gifts. It's stories written from Hospice Nurses from
all over the world. The stories were combined and a book was made. I read this book front to back, page by page, one page
at a time again and again. Final Gifts helped me understand what my dying Dad was going through.
Unfortunately my sister nor my brother even opened their book
so they would laugh at my Dad and tell him he was nuts when he communicated with the other
side or the Spirit World. I felt blessed to be able to witness that.
I've Loved Hospice Nurses every since and I Love You! Thank You for sharing your stories I find peace in them.
This is my aunts last week on this earth and watching this really helped me understand what’s going to happen. The cancer spread throughout her body and actually broke her spine and she’s in a lot of pain.I’m really glad it will be peaceful and painless when she goes. Life is crazy, hug your loved ones extra hard and try to put more good into this world.
I'm sorry for your loss May her soul rest in peace.
Thanks for everything you do, Julie! 💕 My granny was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer 1.5 months ago and has decided to use MAID (medical assistance in dying) and will be doing so on Thursday. I started following you and Penny a few months ago and I'm so grateful for everything you ladies have taught me. I'm currently taking a leave of absence from work to care for her. I'm no longer afraid of death or the dying process, whereas 9 months ago I would've been terrified to be in the position I'm in. Sending love from 🇨🇦
I have been in the presence of a few family members that have passed due to age or illness and found it to be a privilege to witness. It’s not scary or morbid. It was like you feel their peace at being released from the burden of their physical body. Thanks for teaching us and helping so many people.
Wow, that sounds like a very intense experience. I do not agree with assisted dying but that is MY belief and I am not here to argue with anyone about it. I have sat with people who are actively dying, some family, some friends and some total strangers and it is a very moving experience.
Well, atleast you didn't call it assisted suicide. Some people aren't as respectful about sharing their opinions. You certainly avoided trying to offend anyone. You and I aren't in agreement but I respect your opinion, assuming you respect a person's right not to suffer despite you disagreeing with the method. It is a serious matter, considering it involves human life, abd it's controversial to some - so I respect that. As a pro-life advocate I have to respect that opinion, and understand where people are coming from in that aspect. Abortion is a completely different thing and it's controversial for it's own reasons but I get why someone wouldn't agree with this. And it's rooted by the same morals and compassion of pro-life advocacy - the belief that human life has intrinsic value. In all fairness- these are people who have lived their lives and are choosing not to suffer during their final hours, so that they may pass peacefully with dignity - that's much different than a child who didn't make the choice to have their entire life experience of loving and having children of their own just stripped away from them - like they were nothing. Nothing is more evil than infanticide. I had a person say that hospice care are equivalent to abortion clinics. I'm not much for insults or ad hominem remarks but... I do hope that person grows taste buds in their butthole.
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This is horrible! What about M.A.I.L, medical assistance in living!!
Respectfully, my opinion wasn't about "offending" anyone! Interestingly enough when our society talks about "morality" where does it come from? Of course secularism says it comes from us, but it doesn't, that's subjective "morality". There is an objective morality that, again, this securalist society and government moved away from and that's God! He created us, gave us life, grace and mercy! We, as a society, don't give these things to each other! Our life is not out life, it's his! To remove God from the equation, everything is just a matter of opinion! Just look at mankind's history and you'll a long list of of horrible tyrants that took human life because they convinced everyone they were god!
The word dignity should never be used to describe suicide. Its tragic and with cause an eternity of regret.
Thank you so much for posting these videos and explaining the dying process. I lost my Grammie in 1994 to pancreatic cancer. I hope it's okay if I share my story of what happened the night she passed away.
I was 13 years old and she died 11:51pm. I felt like someone sat on the edge of my bed and when I looked up, I saw my gram. It was 11:53pm. She held my hand but couldn't speak but I heard her voice. She told me when I see something like a butterfly or dragonfly she's telling me she loves me and she's okay. It was less than 30 seconds but the feeling I felt when she took my hand was unlike anything I had ever felt before. It can only be described as genuine and unconditional love and it was so warm and beautiful.
A few nights later, I had a dream of seeing my gram in this huge golden dining room with other family members and no one was speaking but I could hear bits of the conversations and she was so happy to be with her husband, friends and other family members. It really put me in place where I knew she was truly happy and it really helped me to begin the healing process.
Thank you so much for what you do. God bless you today and everyday.
That's awesome.
"It was a blessing, an honor and heavy." Yes. That's precisely it when you are with someone when they breathe their last breath
My mother wanted the death with dignity option. She went through the interview process and had the medication delivered. She never used it. I wished we were better educated in the fact that when my mom stopped eating and drinking she would only have a couple days of consciousness left. That would of been the time to have the conversation about taking the medication. Once she slipped away into unconsciousness it took four more days before she passed. Love this post.
Maybe it was a blessing that she never got to use it.
These seem both to be such odd comments. Four days of unconsciousness before death seems very mild. Such little suffering, why would you need the medication?
And the fact that it was a "blessing" that doesn't make sense either. It's not like she didn't take it and recovered. I hope we are not talking about rellgion again with this one. I am on the side of people, not religion. @@kbro7484
This is valuable information, and I appreciate your candour and insight. Thank you for all your work and for sharing your experiences. You are priceless. IMO
Having been there for family and friends the look of peace in the The last few minutes always gave me a good feeling
All U.S. states need to implement this! People seem to think that it will mean anybody can get this cocktail and die. Its not going to be given out to a suicidal person nor can someone's relative decide to get it for grandma. Please educate yourselves and push for this to be available everywhere.
Do you know where she is located because I feel like this is the way I want to go in the future.
I think we also need to accept that suicidal people have rights too. Whether its chronic physical illness or intractable mental illness, if someone says they are done we should respect that. Fix us or let us go.
Hospice care isn't legal in all states?! Smfh. I wasn't aware of that. I'm going to have to research which ones. That's terrible. And you're right, it's nothing like that clinic in Canada that does "same day/walk in available" assisted suicide. Those who say it's no different than suicide or abortion can't be educated- their brains are permanently underdeveloped and their narrow minded thought process is pedantic at best. I'm amazed they're even bipedal and can read. Ignorance is a side effect for the inability or persistent refusal to see or consider nuance. There is no changing their minds. Even though the majority agree - that hospice care is a necessary service and highly important- I find it awfully hubristic that even a small minority are against it and are advocating against it in the guise of social justice. Just another group of woke cultured karens
@@joecheffo5942I get what you're saying, but that's a very slippery slope. I strongly disagree, it's a recipe for disaster and even if it were put into legislation, it will fail. Just as it will in Canada. How do we discern or determine whether or not a person's condition is untreatable? And who sets the standards of what can be deemed treatable or not? And if "not", why hasn't tranquilizers been a last resort method before death? Who sets the guidelines and thresholds of what is medically untreatable and whether or not death is a moral method? The "experts"? Who are the "experts"? Politicians alone or an "expert" panel of selected psychologists to make the legislative recommendations? Even though i think it's a bad idea to implement such a law - it would still be better if we turn to science on this - it's bad enough that politicians abuse the power they have over our lives, having their hands in telling us we can choose our own death is too dangerous considering so many of them aren't suitable for the responsibilities they already have. But even if we asked the world's most renowned psychologists to create these paradoxical parameters for us - good luck with that. Besides, is it really moral to put it in their hands? Does a PHD and understanding of neuroscience automatically mean that they're the point of authority on this matter? Because people with PHD's can still be all about bullshit, or be immoral, and don't have any expertise or offer anything useful to their field of study. Some of them just simply got good grades or just enough to finish their education to be merited with a doctorate. It doesn't mean they have any kind of credibility. And how do we gauge a person's credibility as relevant to such a matter? Additionally, our lives aren't our own. They don't truly belong to us and we have no right taking away what was given
@@joecheffo5942 I 100% agree with you. Some of us are just afraid to fail at the attempt and end up worse off than we are now. Something like this seems easy, painless and peaceful. I would drink it this very moment if I could.
Your videos would have been so helpful when my mom was at home hospice. Every video I watched since her death is so spot on.
I wish they would accept patients with auto imune diseases. I really wanted to be able to get it. It should be available for everyone
@@vanessabrockman379 i agree!
I remember a special patient I had as a LPN on a med-surg floor. His wife had had a heart attack so she could not lift him. I dortounded him and his wife for 4 hours as he passed. I will never forget him. I had taken care of him before so he was a special person. His wife saw me a few mos later and remembered my face
I'm sure the person's family was glad to have you there to help them feel reassured.
I think you are ace! Keep up all your amazing work. I believe you are helping thousands if not more. Everybody should have access to your stuff.
Thank you for sharing this. The ability to make this choice needs to be available to everyone. The fact that it isn't shows how little lawmakers care about other humans.
I live in Chester in the UK and I’ve seen all your posts. Please don’t stop!!
Thank so much. My daughter and I are so grateful for your videos. God bless and keep them coming.
Bless you Julie for the work you do, and all others like you ❤
Dying with Dignity should be available to anyone who chooses it.
Unfortunately it's only an option in 11 states.
It puts CIVIL in Civilizations
LIE!!!
You are given a paralysing sedative..
You are FROZEN I SIDE and you DROWN IN YOUR OWN FLUIDS
Autopsy ALL SHOW YOU HAVE DROWNED INTERNALLY
The drug is made in Italy and is the SAME as what USA PRISONS USE
In executions..
You LOOK PEACEFUL OUTSIDE but its like a sleep apnea dream you KNOW YOU ARENT BREATHING but you wake up and gasp.. only NOT IN THIS CASE
The Oral version takes up to 24 hours to kill you the INJECTED version takes 16 to 20 minutes
This is a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE WAY TO DIE
You're in a cult
@@alloralou4722 problem is it would put that medication in the hands of ppl who could kill others with it.
That’s very nice that you share these things. It’s very emotional though. Thank you so much.
I think this is far better because when people do it themselves its far more traumatic
I have decided I WILL do this if I ever get to that point. I am 64 an healthy now but if ever that changes I have options and I feel less scared if it does. Thank you for making it feel so peaceful!
Do you know a facility where this can get done in the US because I also want to do this in the future because I want to go peacefully
Religious fanatics run the US. You can only get it in some states and only if terminally ill. The fanatics push their beliefs on everyone else unfortunately, instead of just optiing not to do it@@EH1216
I had a cousin Donna, that as kids, I had been very close to. Both of her parents died with Alzheimer's or dementia. Her sister who was married had been in a facility for about 20 years. She also had dementia. My male cousin, her brother also had passed with Alzheimer's or dementia. Donna had been diagnosed several years ago with dementia. A year and a half ago she took an intentional overdose of sleeping pills and died in her sleep. She lived in a state that did not have this option. When I spoke with her husband, after Donna had passed, I let him know my beliefs of the difference between suicide and SELF DETERMINATION. Donna made the most difficult choice to spare here family the grief of watching your loved one slowly evaporate, the cost of long term care, the possibility of violence driven by the disease, and a long slow death. My heart breaks that she was not able to be surrounded by her loved ones and was not supported in her choice. She watched her whole family succumb to these diseases. She knew what her out come was going to be. We as adults, being of sound mind, not depressed, should be able to make our life choices. If we have cancer, don't we have the choice to have chemotherapy? If we have a gangrenous wound on a leg, don't we get the choice of treatment or amputation? Working as an RN in ICU, I have seen life saving techniques used, knowing fully well that for that specific situation, the outcome would be the same. The patient was going to die. I have heard doctors tell the family that the patient had a 50/50 chance of survival. What was NOT SAID.... WAS WHAT WOULD BE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE IF THEY SURVIVED. RARELY WILL A PATIENT RETURN TO THEIR PREVIOUS LEVEL OF FUNCTIONING. Please, think of your choices and what you want and how you want your passing or your loved one's to be. If it is too painful or emotional to talk about, than write it down. Have it witnessed. Donna's older sister who had been in a facility for nearly 20 years passed away 5 weeks ago. That whole family is gone. From my Mom's dearest sister and beloved brother in law to all 3 of their children. None of us are getting out of here alive. Death is just the vehicle to carry us from this plane of existence to the next. This place called Earth was never designed to be our final home. I'm looking forward to that great reunion day that I walk on the streets of gold and embrace my husband and son once again. And all those that have gone before me. Be blessed. Be kind. Be patient.
That was absolutely perfect that took us right from the beginning to write to the end and that's what I think we needed to hear what was it or what is it really like and you explain that so perfectly and I do thank you and I'm sure a whole lot of other people thank you God bless you for the work that you do keep it up and keep posting
Wow ! Thank you for sharing this .
At any point did you explain that their loved one was actually drowning to death, for an hour, while paralyzed & unable to tell anyone what was happening or if they'd changed their mind once the effects set in?
Thank you so much for covering this. It helps to put my mind at ease.
I hear the autopsy reports are stating it is like drowning. Not for me.
Keep on keeping on Julie. There are millions of us that agree and support you and what you are doing. Be blessed my friend.
Do you know where she is located I'm just asking because in the future I would like to have a peaceful death
Concerning new information has come out that the MAID cocktail first paralyzes the body then fills the lungs with water. So the person is drowning over that 45mins but cannot physically move bc of the paralytic. So we actually dont know the level of suffering. Thats potentially awful and horrific.
It is a central nervous system depressant. I don't know where you got that information but it sounds like propaganda from the ones who don't want people to have this available.
Thank you for this video. A dear friend of mine passed on her own terms earlier this month. She had glioblastoma. I wasn't there when she passed so this video has helped me with processing the loss.
I’m currently coming up on three years of dealing with ALS. I am now 34 years old and I’m realizing the amount of strain that this is causing my wife, my family. Everyone wants to help but I can see how exhausted they are, specifically my wife. She is the strongest person I have ever met and I am so grateful for her but I’m just so tired and seeing the toll that this is taking on her is devastating me. This is something that I am actively looking into, although it was explained to me as a series of injections.
Thanks for sharing your experience. A friend of mine did this. She bought the medication. It was very expensive and cash only for obvious reasons. I was not there, but our mutual friends were. I am glad she was legally allowed to do this. There is medication patosin to bring us into the world, there are also meds to take us out. It was not for monetary gain. It was all about the friend.
Even if the are out...they are probably drowning and can not move because of paralysis. The meds paralyze and put to sleep like anesthesia and then the body shuts down. It's sick that this is now accepted in our society. Suffering is a part of life and often death. That doesn't mean we get to skip it. God bless!
But you don't really know what they are experiencing while "asleep".
@@crystalgilliam3006 well for starters it paralyzes you and it can take up from 45min to 24 hours for you to die during which your lungs fill with fluids
I'm sure the paralytic always induces extreme fear as they start regretting their decision. So sad.
@@user-lo9po5mp5u They go to sleep instantly and never wake up. They are not paralyzed, they are not in a panic, they are asleep.
@@crystalgilliam3006 I bet is the most peaceful feeling
@@user-lo9po5mp5u exactly. What a self-deluded monster.
If she likes being part of a death cult, she should just say it.
God is the Author of our stories...and He has written the ending. No disrespect, only love. ✝️
They are awake. Drowning for hours. A paralytic is not an anesthetic
0:50 - one u mix no going back ??? - pour the drink in in sink , and go back to life
This is my choice. We will have Assisted Dying in law in November 2023, here in Australia 🇦🇺 😀 I am hoping it is this simple. Thankyou Julie
Can Americans do this or do you have to be Australian?
To love is to suffer for or with the loved one, not to help him to end his life. I can only imagine why a friend would help a person to hurt himself, and there is no beauty on it. In the other hand, if people are just atheist, it is understandable that they think this is a solution, but it is not.
Then let people who want it have it
That is so wonderful. I was there when my grandfather turned his face to the wall and stopped eating and when he passed three days later. My grandmother also died at home. It’s just so much better.
Thank you, that was beautiful. I hope for a similar experience when it's my time.
This should be an option all across the country.
Love you too! 💚 Thank you so much for what you do.
I am so ready. My kids don't care and now i don't either! Pls help me die the right way.. .
We should be helping people not killing people. I honestly can not believe what humanity has come to and to see so many people here agreeing with this M.A.I.D practice is very alarming. Shame on all of you. People need to be loved and cared for and to know they matter.
My sister best friend September 28th 2023 she was so sick and she had Cancer stage 4B she was in so much pain. God bless her, 🙏🏽🤍💫🕊️🦋💖💖💜💜
There was a study done that has proved during the “45 minutes” while they are dying, essentially even though they are “asleep” that they are drowning in their own fluids and technically struggling for that entire time before they finally die. Is this something you are aware of? I can’t exactly see that as “dying with dignity”
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It’s hard to gasp for air when your drowning in fluids
Asleep or paralyzed? It is like waterboarding. One medication paralyzes you so you can't do anything about it and the other medication allows for fluid to slowly accumulate in your lungs. So they are not sleep, they are sedated to a point of being paralyzed. If you are going to make a video to romaniticize this also tell us the names of the medications that are used so we can understand better what might really be happening within their system.
Midazolam, Propofol and Rocuronium. In that order, but 1 hour before Midazolam you take something for nausea. Source: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8920593/
After watching this l feel even more determined to act as a campaign awareness advocat for changes in the law to be made in England. As a person in palliative end stage illness all l have wanted is for a choice " my choice" as to how l wish to end my journey of extreme pain and discomfort, ongoing fights with the medical proffesion to assist in making me comfortable. After a period of time in a hospice l chose to die at home, l have no family to support me and honestly feel the only reason l cling on is because l need to be a voice for those here where l live.
One that gives hope that one day the barbaric way so many are left to suffer for longer periods of time all because others like to play God. Travelling abroad an option indeed but by the time we reach that stage frequently the trip is just too much to take.
I praise everything you have accomplished during your recovery and afterwards nursejulie, and l thank every day you help others in their actively dying stage to be at peace, pain free and most of all loved.
You have to realize that when you say, "others like to play God", that to some people that means taking their death into their own hands too, which for many is not the right way to go with death and dying. Each person has the right to make the decision, but some people do not believe that it is right to kill yourself either. Just realize that please.
Is this the same medications used in MAIDS? Today was the only time I ever put any thought into the topic so I haven't formed an opinion on ethical aspects of the practice. I watched a Ted Talk about it and another video that essentially came to the conclusion that it was possibly a horrible way to go and likened it to being waterboarded and drowning but also being under a paralytic. Sometimes for several hours before passing. After suffering sleep paralysis that sounds mortifying literally and figuratively. Thanks for sharing the knowledge you have on the subject.
Why do you have to drink it right after mixing it - does the medication get messed up if you leave it mixed for a while before drinking?
i'm here because the internet bullies not even struggling with myself just tried of people trying to make me look worse than i am
From a non-judgmental faith-filled perspective. I honor your kindness, empathy, care and the love I heard in your voice. I couldn't do it though not for any reason but for the fact that God and not me is the Arbiter of life and death. Speaking from the heart and for myself, I will take whatever my redeemer sends whenever he sends it. I surrender all. In this time of Advent, in this context, come Lord Jesus Takes on new meaning and new profundity.
Fair enough, but that perspective doesn't work at all if you're not a believer.
Good for you, you do what you want to do and let others do the same. We need laws like this, to allow people to make other informed decisions.
That’s absolutely your decision but I’m incredibly glad that this is available in several states. I have a great deal of faith myself and I believe that He 100% gives us free will to make our own decisions and if someone is diagnosed with a horribly painful terminal illness that causes endless suffering and pain absolutely everybody should have the option of MAID if it’s something they want. I also think He doesn’t want us suffering endlessly which is why we have access to countless treatments and medicines and again why I think MAID is a blessing as well after awhile depending on what it a person is going through there is only so much agony and pain a body can take some diseases are absolutely brutal with the toll they take on a person.
So well said, Colleen. God bless you. I think because there is such a lack of understanding and/or belief in the truth of redemptive suffering, it's a challenge for many people to reach this conclusion, even when they have hearts that are trying to do 'good'. God is the ultimate Good and the Author of life and death.
I myself am a disabled person who suffers much. I'm 41 and have been largely suffering great dehabilitation for about 13 yrs now. I'm largely homebound. All this while homeschooling my daughter, whose birth seemed to start the activation of the genetic disease and companies harshest effects. She has inherited my conditions. I'm so grateful I came to understand the grace of redemptive suffering very shortly before my life entered this stage. I likely would have ended it all by now. Short of a miracle of healing. I'm looking at living the rest of my innumerable years like an 80 year old...in fact most 80s I know have much better quality of life than myself! 🤣 But the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away...Blessed be the Lord. Say a prayer for me and my little family if you, Colleen. I'm offering up 3 Aves for you as soon as I sign off.
@@allisgrace1313 I'm not quite sure what to write because nothing I can say can change your situation or express the sorrow I felt when I first read your reply. Is your daughter at peace with her situation? I pray so and I promise you I will pray for you both. I lost my father 4 years ago but it seems like yesterday and I hear him now gently reminding me that this is not heaven. One of the great insights of the Catholic Church is the realization that God can and does reveal Himself in and through many different things and circumstances. That's why Sola Scriptura doesn't work. We are His adopted sons and daughters and since we share in His suffering willingly as he realized the victory of His Passion, it's Redemptive. We know that and therein lies our joy, peace and Hope. It's still hard though. I think of the words of the Salve Regina... morning and weeping in this veil of Tears. You Are Not Alone. Jesus is carrying both of us. I send you prayers and strength and heartfelt requests and persistent ones at that for healing. God bless you and your family.
Is there a cost to the patient if they choose MAID in the USA?
The process in Canada is injection so it’s assisted. There is no cost.
The medication alone is over $700. Many times this option is not available until the patient is in severe disease decompensation, but that may have changed.
Thank you. Praise God. I hope that options available if I need it
My brain been F me up for so many years now, I really hope in Washington have this for younger people like me
So. Awesome. That. U share the. Stories. Of. That nature act. I. Do love listening to you
This sounds so good. I definitely need this. I’m a disabled and retired three-tour vet, former LEO, former educator. I’ve been costing the government too much money and just need to go. I need death with dignity to save my society from paying for me , not just the medical but the tax-free pensions (DoD and VA). I’m just ready to go here. I don’t want anyone there; this just needs to be quick. Your organization will get a kickback check from the govt bc they’ll be saving A LOT once I’m off the govt pensions. Please where do I get this done at? And don’t worry about disposal, your staff can just throw me down a dumpster chute after I’m asleep, no need to wait for me to die, just send me where I belong, with the trash. I’m ready. Let’s do this.
We have a loved one struggling right now. Drowning in his own fluids. So brutal and it doesn’t have to be this way. 😢
@@MNP208 I am sorry you have gone through this!
I don't think this is right -- this leans toward suicide, which is not a good thing.
Why can't the peoples' health be helped as needed?
We're so blessed that this is becoming more accepted.
I've only had one like this . Here we call it M.A.I.D. ..The difference between the 2 types is night and day .knowing and leaving on your terms VS. Uncertainties and extended time and difficulties causes a fear . I certainly understand the need for these educations in public life
Ilearned of this after my dad passed away, he would have done this if we would have known. He asked a couple times to just be able to die but I didn't know...😑 After he passed away I saw a documentary called How to die in Oregon, and You don't know Jack. I was obsessed with this after seeing my dad suffer. If I had the gumption I would become a Hospice nurse just to help in last stage of life care and make sure that option was known.( the schooling though ..ugh) I love your videos, thank you for sharing your experiences.
A friend of mine recently entered hospice due to Stage 4 terminal cancer and will be taking this step in just a few days. Our church held a lovely celebration of life service in his honour today ❤️❤️
In Canada they have a maid program and from what I’ve heard what they are given first basically paralyzes their body and then they are given something else which from what I hear causes them to actively drown, like being water boarded. Since their body is in this paralyzed state, they cannot more or show the fear and horror they are going through.
How is maid different from what you are explaining?
@@KKbaby1111 your info is false. As someone who works in healthcare they are given a relaxing sedative followed by propofal usually which is given in a much higher dose then what’s given in surgery thus putting them in a coma and if that hadn’t already stopped the breathing then they are given a paralysis medication which does stop breathing followed by death. The procedure is painless and they are totally unconscious. No they do not drown in fluids. Most of the comments are so ignorant of facts and are scaremongering.
No people do not die from drowning. Stop spreading misinformation.
Julie, bless you for giving dignity in death...to those who want to leave this plane with whatever fiber they have left. Especially after our bodies have been ravaged by sickness and age. I honestly hope that you have a blessed Holiday and Peace in your heart ❤. My sister Roxann finally made her exit on October 4th. In life she did EVERYTHING on her terms...this was no different, I know she CHOSE her time. She, waited for me to be gone...always the eternal pisspot...still did it all her own way.
What is the name of the medication? Because I heard it was like drowning sometimes for like 20 minutes?
This may sound like a ridiculous question, but as someone who just cannot drink liquid meds of any kind, how much does the patient have to swallow, and do you have any idea what it tastes like (not by experience, of course!)? Everyone I know who has been with their precious pet during its euthanasia has commented on how we wish we could choose that option for ourselves. I just connected with Outpatient Palliative Care through Kaiser, and I know Kaiser offers the end-of-life care option. May transition to hospice at some point.
It's a very bitter 2 oz medication. They recommend practising swallowing water until you can. It can also be given by nasogastric, feeding tube or rectal tube, if needed. The state of washington has a wonderful resource about how the medication is administered.
I’m scared 😱. Never going to Canada!!!!
I had no idea this was even a thing. Let alone it was legal.
I'm in Australia, as far as I know you can't do this. Maybe I'm incorrect. Obviously these people are at the end if their life.
Their chosiing to go when, & with their own dignity as such.
I've always hoped and believe this would eventually be legal.💙🤞
I'm sad😔😥 2 say though, I'm positive it's not allowed here.
Yet hopefully or even better, I hope I'm wrong.
If anyone reads this as it ls lengthy. If u know please let me know.. Cheers.
I Just 💜 this lovely Nurse/lady's stories. She gives me so much comfort. I've always believed there more to dying than just a black nothing.
The more conformation though the better.
Also the calmer, & extra recognition makes feel it's true.
Not even 4 me so much. I love knowing more 4 my loved one's. Bless them all. 🙏😇❤️
Thanks for sharing all your lovely stories... 👌☺️
So my dad passed away on the 4th of July in 2017 and he went in for 'pain management ' but never came out. During his stay a few days before he died (he went in on a Thursday and died on that following Tuesday) they brought up this med that they said basically disconnected his brain from his body and they said after he takes that, there's no coming back from it. Is that the same thing ur talking about here? I was against that but unfortunately I didn't have medical POA over him.
This has to be so hard, but I can understand the thought process behind it. I don't know that I would ever be able to help a patient perform this procedure just because of my own past struggles with S. Ideation, but I can recognize that it has its place. It's better than seeing them take matters into their own hands in a way that would cause them pain and suffering and wouldn't even necessarily have their desired result.
Have you (or anyone involved in this particular area of the field) ever seen or heard of family members trying to smack the medication out of their hands or otherwise stop them?
Thank you, Nurse Julie.
Thank you for this video!
Being a nurse is a noble profession. Being a hospice nurse requires someone special. How or what made you decide to become a hospice nurse Julie,?
Would this medication, this form of release preclude patient organ donation?
This is a really good question. I wonder this too now.
It does. For organs to be donated you need to die in the hospital, not at home. You cannot use organs from a dead body, they need to have a continual supply of oxygenated blood in order to remain functional. There is a procedure called organ donation euthanasia, where the person gets anaesthesia and then dies of the removal of the organs. This is very rare though and strictly regulated. It can only be on request of the patient and even then it is not easy to get permission, because of the moral implications. I am from Europe and I am not sure if this exists in the USA.
As I deteriorate from.brain cancer this is on my mind more and more.
This is some scary shit 😢
Can you drive to California immediately?