More people want to die at home

More people should be able and allowed to die in an environment that they like and love, their home. More than half of the people who die do so in the hospital, where at the same time three quarters of the people who like to pass away in the warm comfortable environment of their own home. Andrew Lansley, health secretary states this during his announcement of a complete review of funding palliative care services. Ciaran Devane, Chief Executive at Macmillan Cancer Support, said that people should have the fundamental right to choose where they want to die.


Own opinion:

I agree with Ciaran Devane. People should be able to die wherever they want to as long as it is not in a public area. I think that this is pretty similar to convicts on the American death row, who are granted one last dinner wish before carrying out the sentence. They can not choose where they want to die, but they can choose whatever they want to eat for their last meal. I think that this is similar to dying people. They can not choose whatever they want to eat last, but they can choose where they want to die. I think this should be a right that all people on this planet should have.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7881268/More-should-be-allowed-to-die-at-home-Andrew-Lansley.html