Poll indicates "Disease" least of worries when it comes to way or cause of death
"Malice" was second. What was first?
A 3-day poll asking “Which do you consider the worst way something living can die?” found “Disease” as the least concern of the five choices.
Here are the results of the 88 votes listed from least to most number of votes:
2% - “Disease” - 2 votes
7% - “Unexplained or unknown reason” - 6 votes
24% - “Not enough water, nutrients, or sun” - 21 votes
25% - “Malice” - 22 votes
42% - “Isolation” - 37 votes
While the interpretation of the poll and results are open to debate, one thing is certain: being alone as the cause of death or upon death is arguably the worse way something or someone can die.
Is there a way to prevent dying alone?
A few thoughts come to mind.
The first is a program called “No One Dies Alone” (NODA). NODA is a program offered by more than 400 hospitals and hospices that offers companionship and support to patients who are nearing death.
History of NODA: https://historyofyesterday.com/the-history-behind-the-no-one-dies-alone-program-1989da5b2f1f
Secondly, with respect to the lockdown, administrative, or travel policies preventing loved ones the ability to be with those dying, I ask, “What preventive measures could have been taken to minimize risk, but still allow a person to die with the persons they love beside them?” For example, couldn’t loved ones (or volunteers) who already achieved natural immunity with no symptoms been with those during their last moments? Couldn’t Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) be used — same as those used by caretakers and health professionals — in order to be with the ones they love?
What's done is done, but let us learn from what has happened to react or be prepared in case we are faced with a similar situation again.
My final thought relates to a reader’s comment made while the poll was live: “My answer: Losing the desire to live”.
A solemn, but completely legitimate answer. The closest choice, I suppose, would be “Isolation”, that is isolation from others, either by choice, complete apathy, or circumstance.
I would, of course, be remiss in not mentioning the new, shorter:
Suicide Hotline - 988
which may help those with feelings of loneliness or desperation.
As someone who has not experienced these types of thoughts, but worries about those who may, the only advice I have is if you can be a friend or listening ear for someone, if only for a moment, try. If you cannot, point them in a direction where they can find someone.
[An aside: Curiously different from other voting results we have seen in recent times, with 37 votes in just three hours after the poll was available, the percentage results basically reflected the same results as the full three days with little percentage change even as more votes came in.]
Love ~ peace ~ faith
Isolation that’s …what transpired was is
Cruel. Inhumane.
Most people are lonely to begin with
Times this by 100 forced isolation in
The unknown.
Suicide is absolutely devastating to everyone who tries to fathom how dark
One goes and God bless each desperate
Soul who chooses death as a solution.
I can tell you from experience that
Suicide leaves you with deep scars
And 10,000 questions. And deep regrets
Never getting to say good bye.
Never say good bye formally
So suddenly
Never say good bye to those isolated
Well we are getting a crash lesson
In human behavior.
We pray for every loved one who has
Died or who has been harmed.
Not in our life time or any history
Where everyone is affected by this
Fake pandemic. Fake test. A bio
Weapon.virus a vaxxine that’s not
A vaccine
Death takes no concern
On warp speed dreams
We learn
The full moon beams
The shadows
Where they have been
The isolated the suicided
Good bye parted friend
“What's done is done”, is simply not acceptable. There must be a very public accounting by the unconstitutionally appointed “experts” and public “leaders” who caused the travesties so many people experienced, including the families of those who knew their loved ones died alone. Others suffered as well. Without an accounting; without justice and compensation, of some form, to the multitudes of unjustly injured, nothing is learned, remembered or improved.