2023-11-01 22:30:00
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The euthanasia It is already a right in Spain. After many controversies and ethical debates that remain standing, one can request it in certain circumstances, when the health It doesn’t accompany you and the body and the person can’t take it anymore.
Put yourself in the head of a person who requests this wish die with dignity is not easy. Put yourself in the shoes of a professional who accompanies this process neither. The only thing one can do is open your eyes, put your ear and a little more.
Facundo and Juan Ponce de León This November 1st they release a documentary in which two of these people are seen in action. One is the specialist doctor in oncology and honorary member of the Spanish Society of Palliative Care, Henry Benitothe other, Fernando Suredaa Uruguayan accountant who needs help in this end-of-life process, when in his country euthanasia is not a right.
The Mallorcan doctor does not agree with calling a documentary a There is a door there. In reality, they are excerpts from conversations between doctor and patient, a mutual accompaniment in which both they learn from each other, despite their fights and disagreements. An accompaniment that the viewer can attend to see what is being talked about when talking about euthanasia. “The tenderness, the bond, the connection, the meaning is what helps you make the process.“of dying, he assures.
A particular science
Benito and Sureda argue and debate. The doctor wants to prevent the accountant bet on death before facing the suffering, but he also collapses and is helpless when it comes to convincing him. It’s about a debate that continues to happen.
Despite being in favor of euthanasia, the doctor He refuses to believe that it should be easier to access it without thinking about palliative care, something that outrages him. He has a spiritual vision of life and that, sometimes, comes into play. conflict with medical science. At least that is what emerges from the conversation she had with Direct Chronicle following the movie.
Doctor Enric Benito CEDIDA
Do you fear that the film will reopen the debate on euthanasia?
This is not a film for or against euthanasia. It’s a movie to make you think about life. and how we are connected to others. That makes people think about a lot of things. The film is there to enjoy and make you think.
Talk about connections. Are these connections not beyond science?
And so much! But science is very limited. I am not a scientist, I am a scientist with a conscience. What happens is that Current science is the result of Newtonian mechanics of the 19th century. 21st century quantum mechanics, the view that consciousness is part of reality, is not included in the scientific model. In medical school, materialistic science is taught, they teach doctors to treat bodies, not to treat people.. I am not a standard doctor, I have done a process. My job is to teach spiritual accompaniment in the dying process. This is not scientific, because science cannot enter into this, but it is real, it is authentic and it is true. But he is a scientist in a post-materialist science. From the European society Scientific Medical Network we are working on the development of a post-materialist science. There may be more than one body. The person has a conscience and that is it. And alert! I’m not talking about religion, I’m talking about spirituality, science and consciousness. Religion are constructs that different societies have made to reach the depth of knowing what we are, but you can get there without having to go to mass, without believing in Buda nor in anyone. This is what I try to convey.
In any case, there are people who resist the idea of granting a dignified death.
Death is not worthy. death does not exist. Dignity is ontological. You are worthy, I am worthy, life is worthy, but death is not. Death with dignity is an expression of someone who has no idea what he is talking about! You cannot make a law of dignified death. In the Balearic Islands, what we did was a law of rights and guarantees for people in the process of dying. It’s about talking about people, the process of dying, but not the end of life.. Language betrays you or shows you who you are. When they talk to me about the end of life I think: this guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about. ¡Life has no end! Are you thinking this is over? You haven’t figured out how this is going. This has no end, this is a party. But I don’t say it from belief, I say it from experience.
Well, there are people who cannot experience what they say. As it does?
Yes, everyone can ask themselves the simple question of about us. Not a name, a profession, a gender, an age. Discover this and you will know who you are.
Doctor Enric Benito CEDIDA
But this implies a belief.
No, it implies having hit rock bottom, having found yourself in a limit situation, that the mental model that you had of going through life is broken and you discover that there is much more than you thought. The first lie that one discovers is that of the wise men, then you discover more, and that life is not what you have been told. When you break it is in extreme situations that can leave you screwed or transcend, that is, traverse and ascend. Go through there and acquire another look at reality. If nothing has happened to you, you can be quite superficial, which is what happens today. Everything is an obscene superficiality, where people are living the spectacle that exists. People live the show, they don’t live life.
But does science come in?
If the scientific method does not integrate the inner world and only explores the body, When you have an existential problem, science, medicine has no answer.. They medicalize to meet a demand that is neither physical nor organic. This is a system that will collapse. People suffer a lot because doctors, the health system, do not address suffering, they address pain.. The pain is physical. Bodies hurt, people suffer. Suffering is existential. I suffer because my mother is sick and I am suffering because I see that she is going to die and I don’t know what to do with this. This is suffering, it is not treated with drugs. Here one can do several things, either I understand that she will leave, I understand how this is going and I stand by her side, or I look for all possible medical options. Since we doctors don’t know what to do with this because we have no training, people, logically, go to Parliament so they can no longer suffer. And the politicians, who don’t ask questions, make a very cheap law. Why don’t they make a palliative law to support and care for all the people who need help? Thus, some of them will also need to have the euthanasia, But not all. We have started the house, not with the roof, but with the antenna that we have to put on the roof when we still don’t have the foundation! AND I am not against euthanasia, I am against the priorities we have established. We don’t have a palliative care law, there is no budget to help people who suffer.
Why do you think this palliative care is displaced then?
People’s fear of death. The ignorance. The role of journalists at this moment is to make visible that there is a different view of this reality. In 2020, in Balearics There were only nine requests for euthanasia and six have been carried out. That implies that 3,000 people have died with suffering, which are not attended to. What do you think is the priority, the 3,000 or the six? I’m not talking about morals, I’m talking about priorities. There are many people who are suffering and do not have the care they need because we took the photo first.. Things are clear: you can offer a life with more meaning, you can work with suffering, but to do so we must have tools. Why don’t we invest in teaching people how to deal with suffering? The culture needs to do this process, it is no one’s fault.
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