Lorna's story | Ambulance - BBC

[@notyou1178]

Bless her heart. I’ve worked with the elderly and I know how hard it is to care for them when they get depressed and desperate for relief from their ailments

[@S_J_banana]

I don’t blame Lorna for this. She is behaving completely normally for someone in her situation. I hope she gets sorted out

[@jaimelovemac88]

I'm crying with Lorna. Godspeed Lorna. You are so very beautiful. I'm sorry. 😢

[@robertwhelan9132]

On my goodness, bless her. I hope she gets the help she needs to pull through

[@robertwhelan9132]

I wish I could give her the biggest hug ever

[@susietincknellsmith653]

I’m with Lorna. Why can’t we decide to bow out gracefully when our lives are agony? She’s lived a long life. We allow our pets to go peacefully when they are suffering. Why shouldn’t we extend that grace to ourselves?

[@banksiasong]

So does UK not have any voluntary euthanasia laws? This woman's intellect is as bright as a button, she is weepy and depressed, and her breathlessness and restricted mobility suggests cardiac failure, poor woman. Caring for my mum in her last months was such an honour looking back, feeling a sort of closeness we'd never had before, but it was the most physically and mentally exhausting experience of my life.

[@wolflinggon5664]

Unfortunately doing a quick search, it is Illegal in the UK.

[@corvardus]

Put bluntly the UK doesn't have any voluntary euthanasia laws because any attempt to bring legislation is defeated by hypocrite MP's waxing lyrical about how voting for it would affect their conscience against the backdrop of 84% (of 2019) of the UK population supporting such a measure. It did not help that the British Medical Association opposed such moves until 2021 and even then to take a stance of neutrality. In this day and age medicine is capable of keeping people alive far beyond what is optimal quality of life and so here we are where a 90 year old tries to take her life and because there isn't exactly a "practice run" so she failed dismally. When I get to a more advanced age instead of planning to die on my own terms I'll have to have an advanced directive to do not rescussitate or languish in a failing body until the bitter end should I have a treatable but fatal if not treated medical event.

[@Antzlives]

​@wolflinggon5664 I don't know about unfortunately. Too many moral qualms such as temporary mental illness and peer pressure that make euthanasia ethically uncertain

[@Maya_Pinion]

At that age,if she wants to go,who are we to tell her NO....choice,freedom.

[@joshuawaring4180]

This made me cry a lot. Poor woman. And that picture of her at the end is the sweetest.

[@jimbobob6481]

People should be able to pass, with dignity, no one wants to go in to a home, in them places it’s profit, before people

[@wideawakerealist2141]

I got the impression she felt pressured by someone, possibly her daughter, to be put into a home, and maybe she was afraid the decision would be taken out of her hands. Not all care homes are good as they claim to be, and complaints from residents are dismissed ….so she was right to fear ending up somewhere like that …and as an older person myself, I would dread it too, because if your brain is sharp still, and you still have a level of physical independence, then a place with rules and regulations, sharing with strangers, sounds like a place where your brain dies before your body does.

[@kinsley7777]

I hope both you and I are blessed w long stays in our homes and w support of our families ... 💙🙏💙

[@wideawakerealist2141]

@@kinsley7777 I have got that, fortunately. My youngest son’s ( many years ago ) first job was delivering medication to old folks homes as he worked for an online pharmacy. He said it shocked him, and so he’s determined never to put me in a home. I pointed out, should I ever get dementia and become a danger to myself…as I’ve known one old lady, who was prone to wandering the neighbourhood streets at night without a clue where she was or where she lived….her geriatric support team rarely looked in on her, then a home would be the only sensible solution though. If my brain stays fairly sharp, then it would destroy me mentally though living with people I don’t even have anything in common with, without my dogs, spending my days in an armchair staring at the tv in the common room, nor do I knit, play bingo or sing songs around a piano….can’t imagine finding anyone up for political debates etc lol…. We shall see, with any luck I’ll pop my clogs well before then. :)

[@kinsley7777]

@@wideawakerealist2141 I hear you ... and one of the worst things about "memory care" {goofy new words all the time, aren't there ?} facilities don't have anymore than 1 RN to oversee the care and welfare of 200-300 people ... and the staff (?) not even CNA's ... mostly just minimum wage disgruntleds ... it's a sad and frightening state of affairs ... Oh ! and keep your feet firmly in those clogs ❤️

[@wideawakerealist2141]

@@kinsley7777 you too ❤️

[@kinsley7777]

@@wideawakerealist2141 thank YOU, doll 🌹 I know how you feel ... watched Mum go from Sundowner's to Alzheimer's to dementia ... it's a hard road both to walk and to follow someone down ... I honestly don't know which is worse ; the traveler or the follower ... Living well and being kind to others is my plan 😊

[@jackie6742]

It's crippling

[@meshal8washington659]

God save everyone in the world

[@SabrinaPhynn]

🤗 Lorna ❤

[@ElephantSoul]

Good video 📹

[@jennifercopeland7765]

Is this all of her story? I would love to learn more about her. Is there a place and time that I could do this

[@lio1234234]

There might be more. The show is called Ambulance on IPlayer

[@Kataka_]

I know the paramedics are doing what they think is right and kind, but it actually makes me angry, telling her that she doesn't "need" to overdose and to "promise not to do it again". The paramedics are young and fit and have no idea what it's like being that age and being so afraid of losing your autonomy and physical capacity. they have no right to tell her she's doing so well for her age, as if being 90 is the epitome of health and she should keep trying to live for as long as she can. Can't they respect and validate her feelings?

[@Flaretree]

😲😲😲😲

[@kinsley7777]

😭