I want to comment the interesting short of Antonio Banderas "The Lady and Death." First, the approach I find beautiful, because it shows death as a taboo in that society becomes materialistic and hipertecnificada, but as part of life, as the threshold a hope that transcends us. I appreciate beauty in this encounter between the hand of Lady and Death, and reminds me that the poor man of Assisi praise: "¡... sister death and praised, my Lord! " Certainly, I think there is "a time to be born and a time to die."
The old lady's story had come time to die. There is nothing in it contempt for life, but a calm acceptance of death, hoping to find love, and perhaps also infinitely more, on the other side.
Unfortunately, our technical medicine and judicialized sometimes prevents the natural and the love that should accompany who faces this last trip often difficult, but can be undertaken successfully. When all is said and done, this will be the challenge or "adventure" end of life, as would Peter Pan: "To die will be a great adventure!" In short, this lady call it shows the dignity accorded to it, "she would not be allowed to die in peace. In our everyday reality behind may have interests of all kinds, both delay and to hasten death: the refusal of relatives to accept the death of your loved one and the pressures the physician to apply remedies to the end, fear the individual physician to be terminated if not doing everything possible (known as "defensive medicine"), the rush of some by removing the above problem, or to the shortage of beds in a hospital ... many interests sometimes conspire to prevent this last step of life, so important, so we can give as we all want: peaceful, sheltered by the love of us and good medical care. It is true that short can be a bit Manichean in addressing the problem (the doctor is bad, the enemy, and nurses a "Barbis" frivolous dance to their tune), and the outcome may seem ambiguous, but her complaint of therapeutic obstinacy is clear and positive, its approach of death seems more than acceptable, and has suicidal ideation as the result of a complete failure. At bottom, conjecture the short is intended to revive the debate on euthanasia, and present a false dilemma: either therapeutic cruelty, or euthanasia. But for anyone with common sense is so clear that there are other much better choices between these two evils, if that was their goal, not really true. I also think it is the social dynamics of conflict create "good worker-employer greed", "good-cure lay hypocrite", "good woman" macho man "," gay people well, "homophobe", "pro-abortion pro-life good-bad" and now "good patient-doctor wrong." But it's so gross, I think that only an extremist would share that vision caricatured physicians and interests.
Fortunately, in our hospitals is not always true of the short ... It is usual that a patient is already in a process that will end with death sooner or later you write on the clinical history: "NO CPR." That means not using means of resuscitation (CPR) if a cardiac arrest and breathing, to let go when his time comes. But while the vast majority of physicians and citizens have this very clear, we run the risk of dehumanizing death if we do not recover a culture of trust in the doctor-patient relationships. The patient needs the doctor will listen, to report, needs to participate their expectations and be able to prepare them to die according to their best understanding. The doctor needs, in turn, be valued and respected, not be pressured to use and disproportionate means, for fear of unwarranted demands of family or even to claims and lawsuits. Humanize the physician-patient and family can be the key, not forgetting the important role of nurses. Even the humane treatment of an assistant or even the cleaner who comes into the room, they can charge an awesome value in difficult times. If we do so, the consequences can be very sad, in the short film is shown joking, but it highlights the failure that is for everyone including medicine, a patient comes to think about killing themselves because they let him die in peace, "when it came." Imagine the loneliness, abandonment and frustration that would result in a person, and how difficult it would then, for those who love him, this failure to assimilate. This is not cause death, or to omit basic care to provoke, it is not rushed or false compassion (that would not be just another form of manipulation and contempt), but to accept death when it comes, without using media extraordinary life support at all costs, based on the person, recognizing their dignity, as the spiritual being that is, not as a mere "case" doctor. And, of course, making it possible, from a good and ethical medical practice, to alleviate suffering.
all know what it is to die in peace, but everyone has their preferences. In our ancient poetry are a good example, at the end of the verses of Jorge Manrique to the death of his father,
"So with this understanding, all human senses
preserved, surrounded by his wife
and its children, siblings and servants
,
gave the soul to whom he gave it
which have it in the sky
and his glory,
that although life lost, comfort sick Dejon
his memory. "
