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Posted on 1/24/18 at 5:07 pm to Cheese Grits
I'd 100% end myself if I had a painful or debilitating disease that was incurable.
Screw. That.
The fact that is illegal is so screwed up to me. It is your life and your misery. The state telling you that its not your right is ludicrous to me.
They should allow you to get a psych evaluation, and if you're not just crazy and actually suffering, it should be legal for a doctor to assist you in the peace of your own home/bed. Just like in Oregon. There are a few very powerful documentaries about this that I think would change everyone's mind on the matter.
Screw. That.
The fact that is illegal is so screwed up to me. It is your life and your misery. The state telling you that its not your right is ludicrous to me.
They should allow you to get a psych evaluation, and if you're not just crazy and actually suffering, it should be legal for a doctor to assist you in the peace of your own home/bed. Just like in Oregon. There are a few very powerful documentaries about this that I think would change everyone's mind on the matter.
Posted on 1/24/18 at 5:19 pm to Jim Rockford
Watched my mom slowly die from Alzheimer’s...took about 7 years. Went from a vibrant and sharp lady to someone that didn’t know me, or even who she was. Nursing Homes milking the hell out of Medicare...back and forth from NH to hospital Psych Ward. Her fourth NH was charging $6000 per month and kept her drugged up, barely conscious, so as not to be a bother. You’re GD right I’ll end it all before I go through that hell.
Posted on 1/24/18 at 5:21 pm to TheCaterpillar
There's a fairly short list of things that would cause me to put the barrel in my mouth upon diagnosis, if I knew my life insurance would pay.
Posted on 1/24/18 at 5:24 pm to Jim Rockford
My biggest fear is the financial burden of keeping me alive with a disease like that. It won’t be great times. I don’t want to use all of my savings on that.
If money were not an issue I would fight till the end.
If money were not an issue I would fight till the end.
Posted on 1/24/18 at 5:24 pm to High C
I'm moving to Oregon when the cancer comes back. Done all I can do.
Posted on 1/24/18 at 5:28 pm to Beessnax
The aggressive use of pain medication for terminal illness is commonly accepted. Up to a point that is definitely a good thing IMO. But at some point if your pain meds have to be incapacitating to avoid incapacitating pain I could see how the value of life to people suffering could drop - if you are too drugged to think clearly you are too drugged to functionally enjoy life.
Posted on 1/24/18 at 5:32 pm to Jim Rockford
If there is zero chance of me making it yeah I don’t think it would be a bad idea. I can’t imagine what it must be like living and just waiting to die
Posted on 1/24/18 at 5:34 pm to Lakeboy7
quote:
Suffering (you and your family) is Gods way of letting you (and your family) know how much he cares.
So if people don't suffer, he doesn't care about them?
Posted on 1/24/18 at 6:24 pm to Jim Rockford
You should plan a blaze of glory ending. Run out onto a runway and get sucked into a jet engine. Climb a transmission tower and zip line the high voltage cables. Play chicken with a car, on foot. Bundle up some red candlesticks and make a run at the U.S. Capitol. Run down any MLK Blvd yelling the N word.
This post was edited on 1/24/18 at 6:31 pm
Posted on 1/24/18 at 6:55 pm to TheHarahanian
I bet you get banned but that was frickin hilarious
Posted on 1/24/18 at 6:55 pm to Jim Rockford
It’s a slippery slope with a lot of moral dilemma. Once you think it’s okay for people to enable someone to end their life, it’s easy to move the goal post and justify having other people decide, etc..... grandmas got Alzheimer’s, let’s go ahead and put her down. There’s a really good podcast about this about a nurse that was allegedly putting patients down after hurricane Katrina. It is an incredibly good listen that will hit home for a lot of you. LINK
Posted on 1/24/18 at 7:24 pm to Cheese Grits
I can deal with pain and I can deal with physical handicap.
I can’t deal with losing my mind and becoming a total burden on my family.
So, one way or another, I’m not gonna let that happen.
I can’t deal with losing my mind and becoming a total burden on my family.
So, one way or another, I’m not gonna let that happen.
Posted on 1/24/18 at 7:36 pm to sleepytime
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It’s a slippery slope with a lot of moral dilemma. Once you think it’s okay for people to enable someone to end their life, it’s easy to move the goal post and justify having other people decide, etc..... grandmas got Alzheimer’s, let’s go ahead and put her down
Growing problem in Europe.
We could just legalize or reschedule weed. Or stop cracking down on opioids. But that would make too much sense.
Posted on 1/24/18 at 8:16 pm to 99BLKBRD
Medical costs at the end of life is astronomical, and NH are pretty bad cost wise.
As a medical professional, I wish physician assisted suicide was more accepted/ legal. I mainly deal in trauma, and end of life Care is a huge topic with many families.
Also, can’t tell you how many times I’ve been called to put in a port for chemo for someone with terminal cancer, and when I get there to talk to patient, they’ve never been told what to expect from the chemo. Often I bring up, if they say without chemo, you have 3 months, but with chemo you have 6, do you want to feel like shite for 4-6 months, or go and do bucket list stuff (along with hookers and blow)?
As a medical professional, I wish physician assisted suicide was more accepted/ legal. I mainly deal in trauma, and end of life Care is a huge topic with many families.
Also, can’t tell you how many times I’ve been called to put in a port for chemo for someone with terminal cancer, and when I get there to talk to patient, they’ve never been told what to expect from the chemo. Often I bring up, if they say without chemo, you have 3 months, but with chemo you have 6, do you want to feel like shite for 4-6 months, or go and do bucket list stuff (along with hookers and blow)?
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