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re: Boomers and end of life care
Posted on 6/20/21 at 2:24 pm to SquatchDawg
Posted on 6/20/21 at 2:24 pm to SquatchDawg
I’d rather die in the woods alone than spend my last days in a damned nursing home being cared for be people who don’t give a shite about me.
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Posted on 6/20/21 at 2:28 pm to SquatchDawg
quote:then he can get lost if so. You offered a perfectly reasonable solution and he declined it
He won’t move in with us because he wants to stay in his own place. We’ve offered.
Posted on 6/20/21 at 2:51 pm to tiger91
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Now that you say this, I think that might actually be what they discussed with us.
It's a much better option, IMO.
Posted on 6/20/21 at 2:52 pm to SquatchDawg
Ha! A fricking idiot making generalizations about an entire generation of people based on what’s going on in THEIR family. Ever thought that it may be YOUR family that’s f’d up? Check in here when YOU are old, demented and or dying of cancer. I would be interested in what your feelings will be then.
Posted on 6/20/21 at 3:00 pm to SquatchDawg
Very selfish of him. Your time, money and resources need to go to the younger generation. If it comes down to taking care of your kids or parents, chose kids every time. I've already instructed my wife/kids that when the end is near and I'm on the verge of needing round the clock care to drop me off in the woods somewhere, I don't want to live like that.
"When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.”
Chief Tecumseh
"When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.”
Chief Tecumseh
This post was edited on 6/20/21 at 3:02 pm
Posted on 6/20/21 at 3:32 pm to SquatchDawg
Greedy and Selfish Boomers being greedy and selfish? Imagine that……….
Posted on 6/20/21 at 3:36 pm to TigerGman
You realize that reflects just as much on them as it does on the kids, right?
Posted on 6/20/21 at 3:47 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Die from covid old man.
Posted on 6/20/21 at 3:48 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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Because the silent generation and boomers didn’t put the greatest generation in nursing homes. They stopped whatever they were doing, to take care of their dying elders. Sure.
Hmm so why did retirement homes become a thing before now?
Posted on 6/20/21 at 4:04 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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Because the silent generation and boomers didn’t put the greatest generation in nursing homes
That's garbage. The boomers left their hometowns behind.
My mother gets upset that I don't have relationships with my cousins like she had with her's.
When she grew up, they all lived within 10 miles of each other, and got together every weekend and spent the summer's on my great grandparent's farm.
But each of her and her 6 siblings left that hometown for college and never came back.
I've met my cousins each a handful of times, and have all only been together two weekends in our entire lives.
Boomers destroyed family in favor of careers in the big city
This post was edited on 6/20/21 at 4:24 pm
Posted on 6/20/21 at 4:19 pm to StormyMcMan
Both of my parents died in 2020 when I was 41 and they were 62 and 64. My mother died first (in March) after a bout with cancer, but the end was pretty sudden and there was never a need for extended care. My dad died second (in May) due poor health related to his weight and alcohol abuse. The end came quick for him too.
I hate that they're gone (even though my relationship with my dad at the end was non-existent for a number of reasons) but at least I didn't have to go through a long series of hospital trips and other things for someone who's no longer themselves and never will be again.
I'm a bachelor, no kids. I have no idea what the circumstances of my death will be like and who (if anyone) will be around when I'm no longer independent. I just want to face my death bravely and with dignity and that if I'm in a hospital suffering with no hope of improvement I can order up a shot to end it all.
I hate that they're gone (even though my relationship with my dad at the end was non-existent for a number of reasons) but at least I didn't have to go through a long series of hospital trips and other things for someone who's no longer themselves and never will be again.
I'm a bachelor, no kids. I have no idea what the circumstances of my death will be like and who (if anyone) will be around when I'm no longer independent. I just want to face my death bravely and with dignity and that if I'm in a hospital suffering with no hope of improvement I can order up a shot to end it all.
Posted on 6/20/21 at 4:29 pm to Globetrotter747
Oregon has that right if you have a terminal disease.
Posted on 6/20/21 at 4:31 pm to greenbean
Playing the emo hand? It’s like you have notoed everything as sarcasm.
Posted on 6/20/21 at 5:40 pm to SquatchDawg
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Edit: Not talking about being there or providing support and being a caring family member. I’m talking about 24 hour care and supervision for an older person that cannot be left alone.
Yeah, it's too much...assisted living is a good first step...then nursing home
Posted on 6/20/21 at 6:59 pm to IceTiger
I’m so glad my parents made plans for assisted living. My grandpa made them experience the hell of having to take care of someone with severe medical conditions and he was upset the family ended up sticking him in a home. It’s just too much to deal with that level of care especially when things get bad.
Boomers single handedly brought about the rise in nursing homes, lol at people thinking they mostly did right by their parents.
Boomers single handedly brought about the rise in nursing homes, lol at people thinking they mostly did right by their parents.
This post was edited on 6/20/21 at 7:02 pm
Posted on 6/20/21 at 8:07 pm to SquatchDawg
Just hold a “My Pillow” over the head until the kicking subsides.
Posted on 6/20/21 at 10:05 pm to Darth_Vader
The OP is obviously a self centered brat or turd. Take your pick
Posted on 6/20/21 at 10:35 pm to SquatchDawg
So, when you get sick and on your death bed you’re ok with being dumped in some heartless facility to die with no family or dignity? You realize these facilities are only free to the poor?
Posted on 6/20/21 at 10:44 pm to SquatchDawg
Pics of your wife and her sister so we can make an informed, rational suggestion as to how much time they should spend on/with presently preparing to pass Paw-Paw.
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