{"id":37154,"date":"2020-11-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=37154"},"modified":"2022-09-04T10:17:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T08:17:05","slug":"the-indecent-confinement-of-our-elders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/company\/the-indecent-confinement-of-our-elders\/","title":{"rendered":"The indecent confinement of our elders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Le Regard Libre N\u00b0 6<\/em>8 <\/em><\/a>- Giovanni F. Ryffel (readers' letters)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Restrictive measures in retirement homes are a scandal of inhumanity. There are people who suffer from a lacerating solitude, torn as they are from their loved ones; the most mortifying depressions can only be cured by the contact and living presence of loved ones, and this is precisely what is now being restricted beyond all reasonable prudence; this results in an obvious injustice. There are even those in the terminal phase of life who cannot be properly accompanied by those who love them. Is it an effective fight against Covid to force them to die alone?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The purpose of medicine is to heal, not to prevent people from dying or becoming ill. Let cantonal doctors and governments think about healing. Let our conscience, our freedom, our responsibility - in a word, our heart - think of death. Faced with death, we must be able to be present: otherwise, why did the soldiers who, by defying it, freed us in the wars of the past fight? What's the point of the doctors who were on the front line in March, and before that in the regions where epidemics had been striking for decades? What's the point of working and earning money if you can't experience decisive moments in a human way? And that's what it's all about, being accompanied in the event of major illnesses, especially fatal ones!<\/p>\n\n\n\n