Originally Posted by
t325
If I were diagnosed with a terminal disease, I would think I would want to get back home to be with my family in my final days, and be around my doctors who know my medical history better. Might want to even get a second opinion - who knows what another doctor might say. My grandmother was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer in the early 1980s and lived until 2009. Talk about a crappy diagnosis.
An excellent point and one I have considered. I watched my father go through the entire course of Alzheimer's over about 7 years and there is no way I would want my family to go through a similar experience. I know from my conversations with him, that he would not have wanted it either. Yet, often things just follow a certain course when no advance preparations have been made.
I have contacts in several countries, speak a couple of useful languages, and would prefer to do the family bit when I could do so in a meaningful manner. The diagnostic issue is a real one, but for purposes of this discussion I would prefer to skip over it.
It appears that there is no one place where conditions are conducive to this option. I guess the best place is where one is comfortable and can participate in care.