Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 10:00a.m. - The Dignity of a Good Death (And other fun conversations) - A Live Streamed Service with Rev. Charlie Tyler and Rev. Dick Hood. - Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Lowcountry

Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 10:00a.m. - The Dignity of a Good Death (And other fun conversations) - A Live Streamed Service with Rev. Charlie Tyler and Rev. Dick Hood.

3/28/2021

Dick and Charlie will team up for an open dialog on what is often life's most difficult discussion.

Frank Flaumenhaft

3/22/2021 09:35:04 pm

At 85 I can look back on a very good life. Looking forward is quite a bit more probabilistic. I work hard at staying in the best physical shape possible. Maintaining my mental acuity is proving to be an even more difficult task. I fear dementia, and the loss of control that accompanies it. I have seen it ravage the brains of my brilliant mother and too many friends and relatives. I don’t fear death, but do fear the loss of dignity that far too often precedes it. What I long for is the ability to control my own death. I think that providing people, while they are still mentally competent, with the drugs needed to end life is the best way to enable people to achieve Death with Dignity - which is the name of an organization that I support. Unfortunately, to qualify for the assisted suicide drugs you have to have less than six months life expectancy, which pretty much rules out people diagnosed with dementia.

DYING CAN BE TOUGH! At 85 I can look back on a very good life. Looking forward is quite a bit more probabilistic. I work hard at staying in the best physical shape possible. Maintaining my mental acuity is proving to be an even more difficult task. I fear dementia, and the loss of control that accompanies it. I have seen it ravage the brains of my brilliant mother and too many friends and relatives. I don’t fear death, but do fear the loss of dignity that far too often precedes it. What I long for is the ability to control my own death. I think that providing people, while they are still mentally competent, with the drugs needed to end life is the best way to enable people to achieve Death with Dignity - which is the name of an organization that I support. Unfortunately, to qualify for the assisted suicide drugs you have to have less than six months life expectancy, which pretty much rules out people diagnosed with
dementia.

Bob Jacobson was a member of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Hilton Head in the 1980s and 1990s. The following is an example of how tough it can be to have a good ending.

The investigation into the shooting death of Robert Jacobson, 85, of Sun City, and the serious wounding of his wife, Roslyn, continued Saturday. The couple was found in their General Hardee Way home around 3 p.m. Friday afternoon after Beaufort County Sheriff's deputies responded to a call for a health and welfare check. Robert Jacobson, a one-time president of the Hemlock Society of South Carolina and a supporter of the "death with dignity" movement, was dead at the scene. A revolver was found near his body. Roslyn Jacobson remains in Savannah's Memorial University Medical Center in serious condition.

She died soon after, probably without regaining consciousness.

Read more here: https://www.islandpacket.com/article33526488.html#storylink=cpy

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3/28/2021 09:46:24 am

Good Morning Everyone. Our Service will begin at 10:00a.m.

Sunday, March 28, 2021 at 10:00a.m. - The Dignity of a Good Death (And other fun conversations) - A Live Streamed Service with Rev. Charlie Tyler and Rev. Dick Hood.

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