Mental Health - Widower Experience (WX)

In Deutschland, Europa und vielen Staaten hat der demografische Wandel Auswirkungen auf verschiedene Bereiche, wie etwa die Umwelt, Sozialsysteme, Arbeitsmärkte, Gesundheitssysteme und Pflege. Es gibt große Parallelen zwischen der Verschleppung und Aufschieben beim Klimaschutz, Umwelt- und Nachhaltigkeitsthemen, Sozialsystem und Arbeitsmarkt, Gesundheitssystem und Pflege, sowie Alterssicherung und  Rentendiskussion letztlich aller Parteien. Das liegt an der strukturellen Gegenwartspräferenz der Politik: Die großen Zukunftsthemen, die die Generation besonders belasten und belasten werden, die Parteien gehen diesen Themen nicht an, aus der Angst, wegen kurzfristiger Zumutungen Wählerstimmen zu verlieren.  Die gesellschaftlichen Folgen der Alterung wurden und werden intensiv in den Medien diskutiert. Teilweise wird ein Generationenkonflikt für die Zukunft prognostiziert, auch weil sich die Interessen zwischen jungen und alten Generationen hinsichtlich der Renten- und der Kli...

In many countries, there is a divisive public controversy over the moral, ethical, and legal issues of death with dignity. On the one hand, some people view 'death with dignity' as taking a life – murder – even though the person being “murdered” has little or no quality of life, they know this quality of life will get poorer, and they want to die with dignity, while they are still of a sane mind. Other people say that this sick and dying person has the right to choose to die with dignity, and that everyone has the self-determination, autonomy and dignity help-to-live and right-to-die - and that this freedom is a basic human right. First of all I want to stress that we must do anything and everything what we can do in order to improve others life, but we must not leave people alone - people who are in chronic pain, suffer pain, loosing abilities, loosing sovereignty and autonomy of their life. Yes, Our attention must be focused on life, and our efforts must be toward improving ...

Assistance in Dying with Dignity There are different forms of assistance in dying. Passive euthanasia - Allowing to die by forgoing life-prolonging medical treatment or high-dose, life-shortening pain treatment, such as morphine (indirect euthanasia), are forms of euthanasia that a patient can make binding in a good living will.  Active euthanasia - Killing on demand, in which a doctor injects a lethal substance into the patient at his request is prohibited in Germany and in Switzerland.  Assisted suicide or suicide assistance (by physicians or others) with a self-determined end of life - is expressly permitted – and even declared a fundamental right by the Federal Constitutional Court. In contrast with the different forms of “euthanasia”, the decision-making process remains with the person (as outlined below) who wishes to end their own life. The patient decides on the end of their life and intentionally brings about his/her own death. In Germany and a few other countries, th...