Jane Turner is right that end-of‑life care needs fixing (MPs, you told us clearly that end-of-life care(临终关怀) in the UK is broken. So now we need you to fix it, 28 September), and I argue that it needs fixing on two fronts at once(同时在两条战线). My husband, John, died in March aged 43 after nearly six years of bowel cancer(肠癌) treatment. He endured more than 70 rounds of chemotherapy, determined to watch our children grow up.(他挺过了70多轮化疗，一心想看着孩子们长大。) He spent his last three months in a hospice(临终关怀院), receiving the best palliative care on offer(可提供的). Even so, he suffered terribly.
简·特纳说得对，临终关怀体系亟需修复（《议员们，你们已清楚告诉我们，英国的临终关怀已经崩溃。所以现在需要你们来修复它》，9月28日），而我认为，它需要同时在两条战线上进行修复。我的丈夫约翰于今年三月去世，年仅43岁，此前他接受了近六年的肠癌治疗。他挺过了70多轮化疗，一心想看着孩子们长大。他生命的最后三个月在一家临终关怀院度过，接受了那里能提供的最好的姑息治疗。即便如此，他仍遭受了极大的痛苦。
Some pain cannot be controlled quickly, and some suffering cannot be treated at all. One evening he screamed in agony(极度痛苦) while stranded(被困住的) in a bath, unable to move, for nearly an hour before relief took effect. As the cancer swelled his torso(躯干), he slowly suffocate(窒息)d – and no drug could prevent it. He was fully aware throughout, and told me repeatedly that he could not go on(继续活下去). In his last hours, I wore earplugs to bear the sound of his gasp(喘息)ing.
有些疼痛无法迅速控制，有些痛苦根本无法治疗。一天晚上，他困在浴缸里动弹不得，痛苦地尖叫了近一个小时，缓解才终于起效。随着肿瘤使他的躯干肿胀，他慢慢窒息——没有任何药物能够阻止。他自始至终都完全清醒，反复告诉我他撑不下去了。在他最后的几个小时里，我戴上耳塞，才勉强忍受得住他喘息的声音。
Most hospices are charities that receive very little state funding(政府拨款) – that must change. Better palliative care will spare(使免于) many people needless suffering. But it cannot spare everyone, and no amount of(再多的……也不) funding would have given John what he wanted: the chance to face the inevitable(不可避免的) on his own terms.
大多数临终关怀院都是慈善机构，获得的政府拨款极少——这种情况必须改变。更好的姑息治疗能让许多人免于不必要的痛苦。但它无法让所有人幸免，而且再多的拨款也无法给约翰他想要的东西：按照自己的意愿面对不可避免的结局。