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Many people are afraid of finding themselves in a hopeless condition or unconscious and connected to machines in a hospital and being kept alive artificially for a long period of time. They are afraid of pointless operations and ineffective pharmaceutical therapies. They would like to give life to their years, not years to their life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Against this helplessness and feeling of being at the mercy of high-tech medicine, there is only one tried and tested method: Patient\u2019s Instructions (also called Advance Directive or Living Will) which can be legally implemented. This involves, on the one hand, a binding unequivocal text drafted by experienced specialists, and on the other hand, an organisation such as DIGNITAS which can ensure that the Patient\u2019s Instructions are carried out, even, if need be, in the face of resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the duration of their membership, DIGNITAS supplies its members with legally effective Patient\u2019s Instructions. These must be respected by doctors and hospital nursing staff and, in order to ensure that those instructions are carried out, DIGNITAS provides its members with the direct support of a lawyer, if necessary. However, because Patient\u2019s Instructions are closely related to the law of the country in which they are issued, this service can generally only be granted within Switzerland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is advisable to give copies of the Patient\u2019s Instructions to family members, friends, one\u2019s general practitioner (GP), the health insurance, etc.; for this, DIGNITAS-members receive sufficient small-size copies and may carry one copy with them at all times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are several further possibilities to \u201cplan ahead and prepare for the known and the unknown\u201d. The starting point is to think about one\u2019s measure of value in regard to one\u2019s own life. What is it that I want to happen in a specific situation, for example when facing a severe illness or if I cannot handle my own affairs anymore? What should happen if, for whatever reason, I can no longer interact with my environment and thus cannot express my will? Many people are afraid of finding themselves in a hopeless condition or unconscious and connected to machines in a hospital and being kept alive artificially for a long period of time. They are afraid of pointless operations and ineffective pharmaceutical therapies. They would like to give life to their years, not years to their life. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":317,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1260","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4466,"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1260\/revisions\/4466"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.dignitas.bertastrasse1.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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