Reporter Jeon Jeon, Money Today | 2023.07.11 09:03
/Picture = SBS ‘Same Bed, Different Dreams Season 2 – You Are My Destiny’ actors Son Ji-chang and Oh Yeon-soo signed a ‘advance letter of intent’ to express their intention not to receive life-sustaining treatment.
Son Ji-chang and Oh Yeon-soo visited the National Health Insurance Corporation together on SBS ‘Same Bed, Different Dreams Season 2 – You Are My Destiny’ (hereinafter referred to as ‘Same Bed, Different Dreams 2’) broadcast on the 10th.
Son Ji-chang said, “There is a life-sustaining medical decision system,” and explained, “If treatment is not possible at the end of the day, the hospital side gives priority to life-sustaining treatment, but we came to sign that we will not do it.”
Regarding the project to discontinue life-sustaining treatment, an employee of the corporation said, “When you are healthy, you have to sign with your own handwriting. A decision that contains,” he said.
When Oh Yeon-soo asked, “Are we here at a young age?”, the staff said, “These days, even students in the 90s come. The elderly think coming here as homework.”
/Photo = SBS ‘Same Bed, Different Dreams Season 2 – You Are My Destiny’ Oh Yeon-soo said, “My husband and I came to know about the system through various channels, and after we became interested, we both sympathized with the same idea. The effectiveness of this system when recovery is impossible with treatment. I heard that if you can’t make this decision on your own while this is activated, the guardians fight with each other or suffer because they can’t make a decision.
Son Ji-chang and Oh Yeon-soo also received a health checkup that day. Oh Yeon-soo was confirmed to have no health problems, but Son Ji-chang had a 1cm lump in his gallbladder.
The doctor said, “There is a possibility that it is a polyp. However, the size is about 1 cm. If this is the case, CT (computed tomography) should be taken for a detailed examination.” Polyps can be removed, but for gallbladder polyps, the gallbladder itself must be removed.”
“In the case of gallbladder removal surgery, it is performed through laparoscopic surgery through a hole in the stomach,” he explained.
Meanwhile, as the well-dying wind blows, more and more people are preparing for the end of their lives in advance.
According to the National Institute for Life-Sustaining Treatment, more than 1.5 million people have written advance statements of intent for life-sustaining treatment between April 2018 and December 2022. Those in their 60s and older accounted for 87.5%, but those in their 30s and 50s also accounted for 191,804. There are 4288 people under the age of 30. Advance directives can be written at 374 locations, including branches of the National Health Insurance Service, major general hospitals, and welfare centers for the elderly.
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