The French do everything better...

Scooter · Post by **Scooter** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 1:20 am

A French hospital will become the first in the world to open up a wine bar in a bid to cheer up terminally ill patients in their final dying days.

Top doctors at Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital believe a few drinks with friends and family could dramatically enhance their quality of life.

The bar will be based in the palliative care centre, where staff will be trained in how best to deal with partying patients.

Clermont-Ferrand University Hospital Center said in statement the terminally ill will be allowed to enjoy a 'medically supervised' glass or two with their families.

The centre's head, Dr. Virginie Guastella, said terminally ill patients have the right to enjoy themselves too.

He said: "Why should we refuse the charms of the soil to those at the end of their lives? Nothing justifies such an prohibition.

"Medically supervised tastings will help brighten what is often a difficult daily life."

Dr. Guastella told The Local: "A situation can be palliative for several weeks or even several months and it’s because life is so precious and real until the end that we decided to cultivate all that is fine and good.

“It’s a way of rethinking the care of others, taking into account their feelings and emotions that make them a human being.”

Scientists have long claimed wine can benefit your health in moderate doses but this is the first instance of a hospital giving alcohol to terminally ill patients in order to boost their mood.

But wine also contains resveratrol, which is said to help prevent heart attacks, combat obesity, lower cholesterol, prevent blood clots and even help combat cancer.

Researchers at the University of Leicester are looking at whether resveratrol, on its own, not in red wine, could one day be developed into a cancer-preventing drug.

They have found a daily amount of resveratrol equivalent to two glasses of wine can halve the rate of bowel tumours in mice.

Scientists want to start clinical trials and find out how the compound might work in human beings.

RayThom · Post by **RayThom** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 4:14 am

That's my plan as soon as I'm diagnosed as terminal -- I'll have a lot of catching up to do. Sign me up.

oldr_n_wsr · Post by **oldr_n_wsr** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 6:11 pm

RayThom wrote:That's my plan as soon as I'm diagnosed as terminal -- I'll have a lot of catching up to do. Sign me up.

I would never say this in a meeting, but I'm with you.

When my mom was dieing from cancer she drank during her final days. She had been clean and sober for 8 years before that. At the time she was on massive doses of morphine anyway.

rubato · Post by **rubato** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 9:58 pm

When I had back surgery you could order a glass of wine with lunch and dinner. Percocet and plonk, it really takes the edge off!.

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rubato

BoSoxGal · Post by **BoSoxGal** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 1:03 am

I plan on spending my hospice days vaping purple kush in mass quantities. Hopefully family and friends will stop by and toke with me. Maybe we'll watch some Monty Python.

rubato · Post by **rubato** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 1:31 am

It's a little premature to be talking about hospice, surely?

But in my case I'm going to try shooting heroin.

yrs,
rubato

Jarlaxle · Post by **Jarlaxle** » Tue Oct 25, 2016 1:57 am

I have no intention of ending up in, to use my grandmother's phrase, a warehouse for people who have not yet realized they are dead. Shotgun, please.

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