Post by Soutpeel on Apr 11, 2017 19:50:17 GMT 7
Nurses grant dying man final wish – a cigarette and glass of wine
After deciding Carsten Flemming Hansen, 75, was too ill for surgery, Danish hospital broke protocol to grant his last request
A man has been granted his dying wish of a cigarette and a glass of white wine by staff at a hospital in Denmark.
According to a post on the hospital’s Facebook page, Carsten Flemming Hansen, 75, was found to be terminally ill after he was admitted to hospital with an aortic aneurysm and internal bleeding.
Predicting it would be a matter of hours or days before Hansen died, the hospital decided not to operate and instead granted the patient a “dignified” death.
The nurses at Aarhus University hospital decided to defy regulations that stipulated no smoking on the hospital’s grounds and wheeled Hansen out on to a balcony where he smoked a Green LA cigarette and drank a glass of cold white wine while watching the sunset with his family.
www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/11/nurses-grant-dying-man-final-wish-cigarette-glass-wine
After deciding Carsten Flemming Hansen, 75, was too ill for surgery, Danish hospital broke protocol to grant his last request
A man has been granted his dying wish of a cigarette and a glass of white wine by staff at a hospital in Denmark.
According to a post on the hospital’s Facebook page, Carsten Flemming Hansen, 75, was found to be terminally ill after he was admitted to hospital with an aortic aneurysm and internal bleeding.
Predicting it would be a matter of hours or days before Hansen died, the hospital decided not to operate and instead granted the patient a “dignified” death.
The nurses at Aarhus University hospital decided to defy regulations that stipulated no smoking on the hospital’s grounds and wheeled Hansen out on to a balcony where he smoked a Green LA cigarette and drank a glass of cold white wine while watching the sunset with his family.
www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/11/nurses-grant-dying-man-final-wish-cigarette-glass-wine
