Engage with Grace
In Alexandra Drane’s words, we need to “start talking. Engage With Grace: The One Slide Project was designed with one simple goal: to help get the conversation about end of life experience started. The idea is simple: Create a tool to help get people talking. One Slide, with just five questions on it. Five questions designed to help get us talking with each other, with our loved ones, about our preferences.”
Let’s face it– even with all the advances in medicine, we will still have to face death one day. When I was still rendering hospital duties during my internship and residency, I have long accepted that death is sometimes really inevitable.
I have also experienced several deaths in my family from different causes –my father from cancer, my grandparents from diseases borne out of their old age and even my uncles and cousins who died during the tsunami in Phuket.
I realize that all of us are mortal and our lives can be taken away any time. What I believe should be done is to prepare our loved ones for our untimely death — both financially and emotionally. I already have my life insurance in place, but I haven’t really made my wishes regarding my end-of-life known. I should make a will on what my family should do in the event that I could no longer make decisions for myself — to die at home or at the hospital, to do everything to get well or to just die peacefully, and so forth. I should. And you should too.
The food in Phuket is delicious and not expensive, all the Thais we met were very friendly and eager to help. We stayed at Bann Thai Resort and Spa- a completely different place to the hectic tourist trap in the east of Phuket Town.
March 10th, 2010 at 4:25 pm