People asked if they want to die at home or hospital

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8146099/NHS-junior-E-doctor-32-gives-glimpse-frontline-coronavirus-crisis.html

Don’t like the source but does this suggest that they’re not treating people? Would you like to die in hospital or home sounds like you won’t get treatment. Can anyone make sense if this?

My guess the difficulties involvement in Treatment dont balance with the chance of sucess.

If you're elderly and need a ventilator your odds of survival are quite poor from my understanding, even at this stage where there are enough ventilators.

People dying of the virus can't be treated.

It gets better. Personally I'd ponder on whether you really want to know or not before clicking.

www.mencap.org.uk/press-release/mencap-responds-deeply-troubling-new-nice-covid-19-guidance?fbclid=IwAR0gu4iLrMrSJUcnZI3vfxUTwwB1lsRLoTKHs4B094VAMcBl9DYijYpj948

I think the dr in the interview is a palliative care dr and isn't necessarily referring to CV patients. She means that as hospitals are not allowing visitors due to CV precautions, end of life patients are now having to choose whether to die alone in hospital, or at home with loved ones.

Hopefully one good thing which will come out of this mess is a revision of attitudes to end of life care.

We live in a society where people with Motor Neurone Disease and their families are criminalised by the state if they to end their own lives - despite having full capacity and knowing that they the inevita

....bly face a terrible end.

Ditto for those with dementia.

Some people will be so ill that there is no point in treating them and prolonging their suffering. In that case, they will be offered palliative care - which includes the choice of whether to die at home or in hospital.

How is this news? Terminal patients have been asked this question as long as hospitals have existed.