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Re:Things I've noticed while visiting the ICU by questime on Friday November 18, 2022 @04:21PM (#33662405)
> Often it's a 4 week old baby.

You are stretching the word often, most people in the ICU are close to the end of their life. A lot of people don't realize but most of the time if you needed to spend weeks in an ICU you are probably not "living" in a dignified way. Almost all ICU doctors/nurses I've talked to would rather have a DNR in their old age than live like that.

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Re:Things I've noticed while visiting the ICU by Eleison23 on Friday November 18, 2022 @05:30PM (#33663432)
Your human dignity is not predicated on how much pain you're in, how awake you are, or how able you are.
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Re:Things I've noticed while visiting the ICU by Der_Einzige on Friday November 18, 2022 @07:27PM (#33665104)
Uhh, yes it is to all three of those things.

If I'm in pain, am delirious, and am unable to operate in the world. I've lost my dignity.

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Re:Things I've noticed while visiting the ICU by Eleison23 on Sunday November 20, 2022 @07:43PM (#33687286)
Just because you feel undignified, or humiliated, or useless, does not mean that you are. Don't swallow the lies.
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Re:Things I've noticed while visiting the ICU by IX-103 on Friday November 18, 2022 @09:14PM (#33666033)
You mean yours.

My human dignity does depend on whether I have to endure the rest of my life pooping my pants, not remembering my own name, and hooked up to some noisy machine telling my lungs to breathe and my heart to beat.

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