Dombi William A
National Association for Homecare & Hospice, USA.
Caring. 2005 May;24(5):28-31.
Our nation has faced any number of dramatic challenges over the last few years. Recently, People across the nation focused their attention to the West coast of Florida, and towards the hospice where Terri Schiavo resided during the remaining days of her life. All of us involved in home care and hospice are keenly aware of the great dilemmas that can arise when considering the cessation of life-sustaining technologies, hydration, or nutrition. We may have faced those dilemmas both personally as well as professionally. For Terri Schiavo, like numerous others in like circumstances, decisions most often made in private, became a very public matter subject to the attention of the mass media, pollsters, and politicians.
在过去几年里，我们国家面临了诸多严峻挑战。最近，全国人民的目光都聚焦在佛罗里达州的西海岸，以及特丽·夏沃生命最后日子里所居住的临终关怀医院。我们所有从事家庭护理和临终关怀工作的人都深切意识到，在考虑停止维持生命的技术、补液或营养供给时，可能会出现巨大的困境。我们可能在个人生活和职业生涯中都面临过这些困境。对于特丽·夏沃来说，就像许多处于类似情况的人一样，通常在私下做出的决定，却成了备受大众媒体、民意调查者和政治家关注的公众事件。
