Thanks Lad, but not possible - I wish I could. I love the Bishop as we all do.
I can be a pain on details like this- ask my family and friends. I'm quite annoying to them! it's just that over the years I have been paying attention to what most people overlook merely by being snowed by the medical establishment.
I don't know how the British medical system operates- I suspect they are quite rigid and compliant with their euthanasia styled policies even more than the US if that's possible.
When I was a nurse in the 1980's we actually tried to save people.
In the early 90's there was subtle but obvious change with promotion of the DNR . I went back to work in ICU and couldn't believe that lack of aggressive care that 5 years before was standard. Apparently this was system wide.
The nurses in the 80's needed to know ventilators, total lab evaluation, reading cardiac outputs and swan ganz. arterial lines CVP and ICP monitoring, balloon pumps - so much technical information for the patient and that was in just a small community ICU. After the 80's this intensity of treatment dropped significantly at least for me -even in NYC where I worked for a while. Don't get me wrong, most nurses are great but the culture has changed. Medicine is both corporate and dictated by the government.
Overall I am NOT a fan of palliative care ( although I'm sure there is a limited place for it) or Hospice. While it all sounds 'nithe", there is too much acquiescence to the "goal" of a comfortable death over the possibility of maintaining life even if there are indications for it. The NO Consiliar church is very much involved in palliative care- it gives me the creeps.