If your mother was terminally ill, would you spend all your money on treatment?

I will definitely do it. If a person can’t even take good care of his parents in this life, why should he be a human being? As long as I can see a little hope, I am willing!

I saw a netizen say this: I have experienced the death of many relatives from cancer. I have also worked in a geriatric ward and often participated in rescuing critically ill patients. I have personally experienced the powerlessness of people in the face of terminal illness. . I remember a bank executive in her 50s who had late-stage ovarian cancer told me that she went abroad for treatment for half a year and suffered from hair loss, anemia and other drug side effects, but was eventually transferred. She spoke in a desperate tone. The eyes are unforgettable.

So if you choose treatment for a terminal illness, you will face practical problems such as long-term medication, the side effects of chemotherapy drugs, and high medical and nursing expenses. If you let nature take its course without treatment, the patient may be abandoned. Feeling like I am worthless. Relatives may also feel particularly guilty and blame themselves for not giving their best.

So when a loved one is terminally ill, whether he chooses to continue treatment or let nature take its course without treatment, it is a dilemma. Of course, it is best for the patient, family members and doctors to jointly choose the most suitable treatment plan.

For incurable terminal diseases such as late-stage cancer, medical science is powerless. The principle of treatment is symptomatic treatment. Use antipyretics for fever, blood transfusion for anemia, and food that cannot be eaten for gastric cancer is on the twelve fingers. Symptomatic treatment such as indwelling gastric tube in the intestine and giving liquid food. It does not involve extremely high medical expenses of hundreds of thousands, so most families can afford the medical expenses. Most of the patients and their relatives that I know choose active symptomatic treatment when their financial ability allows, and they do not have to sell their houses and land to go bankrupt to treat patients.

And now our country’s medical insurance system has covered most people in urban and rural areas. The medical insurance bureau can also bear more than 50% of most medical expenses for symptomatic treatment. The new rural cooperative medical insurance in rural areas reimburses more medical expenses. , so most families of terminally ill patients still don’t need to spend money on treating the patients.