Britons Saying Final Goodbyes To Dying Relatives By Videolink (theguardian.com) 88
People are having to use videolinks to say their last goodbyes to dying relatives with Covid-19 because hospitals are curtailing visits to prevent spread of the virus. From a report: In a sad scene that is increasingly being played out out across the country, in the early hours of Tuesday morning a patient with coronavirus was taken off a ventilator at a hospital in south-east London. His wife and two children were unable to be with him but watched at home via videolink, after agreement from staff in the intensive treatment unit.
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Yes. I wouldn't want to be alone when I die. Which is why I've sat with grandparents and even pets right to the very end.
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I'd much rather be alone when I die because I don't want to be a selfish asshole putting my loved ones through that pain and I don't want anyone remembering me in that weak, pathetic state. Many people (and even animals) feel the same.
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Maybe you should add that to your will.
Closure is helpful for the grief process of many people.
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Bah, not me, set me on a beach somewhere and come burn my body in the morning.
Re:US bill for this $250+ when inmates pay $12.95+ (Score:5, Insightful)
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I'm just laying down the TRUTH here from my Russian village. The shitheads here aren't going to like it, but I gotta do what my Russian masters tell me or they will make we work in the mines.
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We should stop him by voting for an 85 year old multimillionaire hippie lifetime politician with three houses who will give us FREE STUFF and get rid of our student loans! That will show em!
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Re:Hey shitheads... (Score:4, Funny)
EXACTLY. That is why we should elect a multimillionaire lifetime politician with three houses next time! We lost the chance to do so in the last election because of the DAMN RUSSIANS. Lets not let that happen again! Bernie 2020! Plus free stuff and no student loans.
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"That's not rich decadence, it is just a vacation house that sits there all year waiting, in case he decides to vacation."
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" That's not a difficult choice, gimme the hippie any day."
Exactly. Plus he knows where we can get the good weed.
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" That's not a difficult choice, gimme the hippie any day." Exactly. Plus he knows where we can get the good weed.
Only conservative frat boys need somebody who knows where to get good weed. Real hippies grow good weed themselves.
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" That's not a difficult choice, gimme the hippie any day."
Exactly. Plus he knows where we can get the good weed.
And he won't be around fo long enough to destroy the economy.
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God Emperor, and don't you forget it, heathen.
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Re:Hey shitheads... (Score:4, Insightful)
Holy shit, Mikey. Those numbers are pretty important. It really matters if the shitheads here give me big numbers. Thanks for the info.
Re:Hey shitheads... (Score:4, Insightful)
If you seek personal validation on the Internet, you have already failed.
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Actually it didn't look like he was seeking personal validation as much as pointing out that the community generally doesn't think he's a shithead, and that 110010001000 is. Kinda hard to disagree with that point.
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Apparently it's hard to dispute 110010001000's points. I notice that no one really even tried. They just default to the orange Man Bad tactic.
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In a way, that's too bad.
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in theory it's quite easy: just deny him the attention he desperately wants and he will go away.
in practice it's impossible, since there will be always someone falling for it and giving him what he wants so he gets his kick and will come back for more.
a good compromise is just shrugging it off and considering this a social service: maybe if he wasn't getting this attention on the internet he would be doing something far worse irl. otoh it's pretty easy to ignore, ignoring all kinds of morons is a basic skil
Re:Hey shitheads... (Score:5, Insightful)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/0... [nytimes.com]
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We don't have basements in Russia.
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What, do you think they don't have meth in Russia?
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Next, we're talking a goddamn coronavirus here. Yes, more
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So much wrong packed in to one post.
It's not a useless statement when the virus is spreading so fast that if draconian measures aren't taken then most of the world population would be infected, hospitals wouldn't be able to cope with most patients and as such a significant percentage of the global population would die.
You may not think this is important, the rest of us think we should avoid allowing hundreds of millions of people die unnecessarily
Left unchecked the virus would infect over half the worlds po
similar story, different country (Score:2)
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https://slashdot.org/comments.... [slashdot.org]
3+ months? Things will be back to normal on April 1st. China and SK already have a declining number of cases. Sorry kids, your dreams of Fallout won't happen. Back to ordinary life.
110010001000 - 15th March 2020
And everything will be back to normal in a week, right?
Well, Trump said by Easter, so perhaps you will need to wait one more week. /sarcasm
Does that mean it will be on LiveLeak soon? (Score:2)
maybe the NHS can get some cash via Twitch or Superchats
Big F in chat for Removed Ventilator Guy !
very common in Italy (Score:4, Informative)
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Everything will be back to normal in a couple weeks.
Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Oh yeah every day. As in "never". But yeah, keep it up shitheads.
No, people are really dying in Italy and they are dying by the thousands, https://www.worldometers.info/... [worldometers.info], you toxic lump of human garbage.
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WHO THE FUCK SAID THAT PEOPLE DYING IN ITALY IS FAKE NEWS? Are you just stupid? Can't read? Seriously, it is if everyone left on here is retarded or something.
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It is the good old advertising play, if you don't watch the news 'YOU WILL DIE', that is exactly what they are doing, to sell the advertising that comes with more threats of death, if you fail to watch tomorrow episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com] watch to the screen door part and that is totally the nature of modern corporate news, don't let those fuckers into your life, they will haunt your existence until you give them up.
It was her choice! (Score:2)
âoe - the wife had been offered the opportunity of being there in person but without the children and at her own risk so she requested the family be able to watch it from home instead. - âoe
So whatâ(TM)s the big deal !?
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This "story" likely never happened, but we have articles to write and we are the NYT. Free iPads for everyone?
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You're like a character out of Brave New World, shunning others for acknowledging death and wanting to be with a loved one in their dying moment. Don't project your fucked up dungeon fetish onto them.
Re:It was her choice! (Score:5, Interesting)
What the actual fuck, why would you want to watch someone die? Those kids are probably scarred for life, they're going to keep people in a secret room in their basement when they grow up.
My thought was actually the opposite: that it would be easier to watch someone die (especially someone you know) over video as opposed to in person. Would psychologically help soften the blow. As for the person dying, that may be a bit harder. I know I would want to have some physical contact, even just hand holding, in my final few moments. Quite literally holding on to a loved one (or really anyone) as long as I could.
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That's true, and I don't expect the corona deaths to be physically horrible (to those in the room anyway). I'm simply saying that watching the death through video makes is psychologically less real and therefore less painful.
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According to the TFA, some hospitals in the UK have adopted a "no visitors" rule. If they get sufficiently busy, they may not have time for virtual visitors either.
They're probably worried about the supply of PPE. The case load in London is doubling every two days.
"Increasingly being played out"? (Score:4, Insightful)
In a sad scene that is increasingly being played out out across the country, in the early hours of Tuesday morning a patient with coronavirus was taken off a ventilator at a hospital in south-east London.
It is so rampant, so wide-spread, that you only documented ONE CASE, specifically a case where the family CHOSE the video link option over in-person visit, because they wanted children in the ICU that's teeming with the Coronavirus.
My mother is in a full-care active adult community, and they are refusing ALL visitors EXCEPT for hospice patients. That seems reasonable to me.
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You unfeeling bastard! You probably don't even have an iPad OR Crossfit.
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If you bothered to read TFA, you could have saved yourself the trouble of constructing a straw man. Just because the article starts with *an* example doesn't mean it's the *only* example.
Re: "Increasingly being played out"? (Score:2)
Well, saying something is widespread and only providing a single example, not even a quote from a healthcare provider simply saying anecdotally that this is happening more and more doesn't convince anyone.
Perfect end to the monarch (Score:1)
From enslaving half the world, only to be eliminated in a windowless room from a tiny virus. M Nite Shyamalalan should make a movie about this. Oh, wait..
I sure hope they'll stay away if it hits me (Score:2)
Seriously, the very last thing I want to give my relatives as a last good bye is a ticket to follow. If my times comes, stay the fuck away!
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But as an alternative you could get them an iPad. Win-win?
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The cure sounds worse than the disease.
Better than the alternative. (Score:4, Insightful)
While this is sad, the alternative to this would be to prevent any family from seeing them at all. I see this as an improvement on how this would have played out a decade ago.
Homer's Hideous Hallucination (Score:2)
I have imagined that at some point, the good-bye process would be modeled after Homer Moulthrop and the Hanford Project's Plastic Man [idyllopuspress.com]. The patient would be wheeled in to the "hot" room, and the relatives would crawl into the suits. Hopefully this disease isn't around long enough for routines like this to be worked out.
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What fucking suits? Hospitals don't have enough suits (or masks) for the emergency personnel saving lives. They certainly have nothing to waste on family. And they won't for a long time yet to come.
But what about the corporate balance sheets? (Score:2)
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