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I think using hallucinogens and other drugs is absolutely what we should be giving to those who are terminally ill. Doping them all up so they just sit around d

I think using hallucinogens and other drugs is absolutely what we should be giving to those who are terminally ill. Doping them all up so they just sit around drooling is inhumane. This may sound way out of the bounds of normalcy, but I think cannabis should be provided to everyone in a nursing home. Dying, and waiting to die, for all things considered, seem like a very painful, depressing, stressful process. Anything that can be done to let terminally ill patients float off into the afterlife in peace and without pain is a good thing, and anything we can do to improve end of life care we should consider.

cc81 9y ago
But doping them up might be the only answer to the pain. LSD is not a day to day drug than can help with pain or feeling ill from chemo.
maxxxxx 9y ago
Having watched somebody die miserably over weeks in a hospital hooked up to machines and being treated like an object I think being drugged up is vastly preferable. There was almost no warmth or comfort in the process. I remember watching a Canadian movie about a father dieing from cancer and the children buying him heroine. In the end they all got together and he overdosed and died in peace. Seems like a good way to go out out. Obviously I don't know how I would really respond in that situation.
- figurehe4d 9y ago
  That's basically what hospice care is. Give patients opiates until their heart stops.