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Lost_in_the_HTTP

Lost_in_the_HTTP

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I see the other thread, but don't want to clutter it up with what some might consider insensitive.

I don't want to languish for weeks or months or years.

I want to go quickly, lights out. No muss, no fuss.

We need places and abilities to go with dignity, by our own choice while we can still make that choice.

To deny is cruel and inhumane.
 
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Meghan54

Meghan54

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Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
I see the other thread, but don't want to clutter it up with what some might consider insensitive.

I don't want to languish for weeks or months or years.

I want to go quickly, lights out. No muss, no fuss.

We need places and abilities to go with dignity, by our own choice while we can still make that choice.

To deny is cruel and inhumane.
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If you are in the U.S., you WILL languish for as long as your insurance lasts! Only then, when your savings are gone and you have no more currency left in this world.....only then will American medicine grant you the "favor" of allowing you to pass. Until then, you are a $$ of the medical establishment.
 
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Scarpozzi

Scarpozzi

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Meghan54 said:
If you are in the U.S., you WILL languish for as long as your insurance lasts! Only then, when your savings are gone and you have no more currency left in this world.....only then will American medicine grant you the "favor" of allowing you to pass. Until then, you are a $$ of the medical establishment.
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The blood sucking assisted living places are worse because they aren't linked to insurance. They can go through a pension in a calendar year and Rob your kids of inheritance.
 
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Fenixgoon

Fenixgoon

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Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
I see the other thread, but don't want to clutter it up with what some might consider insensitive.

I don't want to languish for weeks or months or years.

I want to go quickly, lights out. No muss, no fuss.

We need places and abilities to go with dignity, by our own choice while we can still make that choice.

To deny is cruel and inhumane.
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I find it most curious that we as a society find it completely humane to put down an animal that is suffering, but don't offer the same compassion to ourselves.

If I'm not dead from something crazy or a freak accident, I would definitely want to go oeacefully
 
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brianmanahan

brianmanahan

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lxskllr said:
That ship's sailed, made a couple circumnavigations, and is now being scrapped out in India. I'd settle for not feeling like I was dragged behind a truck.
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i think i'm starting to realize what it'll be like, just by experiencing the tip of the iceberg.

i recently tripped while hiking and fell onto my outstretched arms

as a little kid i would've bounced back up and not given it a second thought... as a 30 year old i would have probably been sore for a day or two...

but as a basically middle aged man, my arm muscles and wrists and elbows and shoulders hurt like crap and felt like they were burning for 2 weeks.

just when i thought i might need to get it checked out, the pain finally went away. so i guess the rule is, don't trip on a root when you're old.
 
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Tsinni Dave

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Rust never sleeps. It's better to burn out then to fade away. - Neil F**kin' Young.
 
ultimatebob

ultimatebob

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I can't decide if this post is a call for help or not.

If it is, I should probably say something like "Live is worth living!" and then post the number to the suicide hotline in your area.

I have no idea where you live, though, so you should probably just Google that one. Bonus points... once you have "suicide hotline" in your search history, you'll probably start getting targeted ads for anti-depressive medication!
 
brianmanahan

brianmanahan

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sounds like someone's got a case of the mondays

this will help:

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skyking

skyking

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I don't know where you live, but Washington and Oregon have death with dignity laws. If your number is up, you go see a doctor and consult with another and they give you some pills. No muss no fuss.
The bitch about that is dementia. You have to be of sound mind to get them, and dementia creeps up and robs you of that. I read about somebody who was diagnosed with early onset in his 60's, got the pills and exited while he still could. Cut a couple of years of his fam having to watch him fade away and take care of his husk while they did it.
 
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Motostu

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Wife and I have had this discussion. We are essentially on the same page; we'd like the option to go peacefully if something happens to one or both of us and we're just being kept alive with no quality of life. I have not read up on the issue TBH, so don't really have any understanding of the legal aspects. I assume that a lot of the resistance for even giving the option is the Christian belief that suicide damns you to an eternity in hell.

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