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My plan is to intentionally OD on opiod patches if it gets to the point where I'm too sick to live independently and am burning through savings to suffer like t

My plan is to intentionally OD on opiod patches if it gets to the point where I'm too sick to live independently and am burning through savings to suffer like that. The gift route gets clawed back; the system is designed to take all your money first before subsidizing care.

onemoresoop 8y ago
Im thinking the same thing, however i am still young. My mom has been telling me your views on death change as you get older and closer to it.
- ThrustVectoring 8y ago
  If my grandfather's fight with liver cancer was any indication, I'll accept it when my time comes, too.
  - onemoresoop 8y ago
    I've had a similar experience with most of my grandparents, they suffered unnecessarily while we were unable to do anything. One grandmother died peacefully only because she had Alzheimer and she was out of touch, but the early period of Alzheimer was unbelievably degrading to her and to our memory of her. Why would anyone want to go through that?
hcayless 8y ago
Better hope you’re able to do it for yourself when the time comes. I’ve thought the same after watching my parents deal with my father’s Alzheimer’s.
- ThrustVectoring 8y ago
  A good living will and instructions for trusted friends/family/SO to carry out goes a long way for that.
  - kamaal 8y ago
    Its easy to take your life, its impossible(for decent people at-least) to take some one else's life. Friends and family aren't exactly hitmen.
  - dagw 8y ago
    Most people aren't that 'rational' (or willing to go to jail)
- mulletbum 8y ago
  As a person who had grand parents with Alzheimer’s, it's starting to sound like this is my better option. I can go through pain, suffering, and what not completely with it or I can slowly go out without knowing or understand anything that is going on. I think I will take the latter.
samsonradu 8y ago
There is something deeply disturbing and saddening in the honesty of your comment and sibling comments regarding this topic.
- ThrustVectoring 8y ago
  There are some lives that I simply don't consider worth living.
  - samsonradu 8y ago
    Nah, I get that part. The part I don't get is where did we, as a society, fail so badly for people to even consider the things that I read around this thread.
- mrguyorama 8y ago
  If you're going to die, might as well die on your terms
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kamaal 8y ago
In my country(India), if you go to government hospitals(which is the only place the poor can go), its not uncommon to see doctors advise euthanasia to seriously ill patients(burn victims, cancer, organ failures) who are poor. Its just that there are no real treatment option at their income level. And death is easy to bear and forget than living through the pain of seeing your family go through helpless moments, and the humiliation of poverty till the eventual arrival of death. Human life takes a lot of make up and dressing to make it look good.
replies_to_all 8y ago
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onemoresoop 8y ago

Im thinking the same thing, however i am still young. My mom has been telling me your views on death change as you get older and closer to it.

ThrustVectoring 8y ago
If my grandfather's fight with liver cancer was any indication, I'll accept it when my time comes, too.
- onemoresoop 8y ago
  I've had a similar experience with most of my grandparents, they suffered unnecessarily while we were unable to do anything. One grandmother died peacefully only because she had Alzheimer and she was out of touch, but the early period of Alzheimer was unbelievably degrading to her and to our memory of her. Why would anyone want to go through that?

hcayless 8y ago

Better hope you’re able to do it for yourself when the time comes. I’ve thought the same after watching my parents deal with my father’s Alzheimer’s.

ThrustVectoring 8y ago
A good living will and instructions for trusted friends/family/SO to carry out goes a long way for that.
- kamaal 8y ago
  Its easy to take your life, its impossible(for decent people at-least) to take some one else's life. Friends and family aren't exactly hitmen.
- dagw 8y ago
  Most people aren't that 'rational' (or willing to go to jail)
mulletbum 8y ago
As a person who had grand parents with Alzheimer’s, it's starting to sound like this is my better option. I can go through pain, suffering, and what not completely with it or I can slowly go out without knowing or understand anything that is going on. I think I will take the latter.

samsonradu 8y ago

There is something deeply disturbing and saddening in the honesty of your comment and sibling comments regarding this topic.

ThrustVectoring 8y ago
There are some lives that I simply don't consider worth living.
- samsonradu 8y ago
  Nah, I get that part. The part I don't get is where did we, as a society, fail so badly for people to even consider the things that I read around this thread.
mrguyorama 8y ago
If you're going to die, might as well die on your terms

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kamaal 8y ago

In my country(India), if you go to government hospitals(which is the only place the poor can go), its not uncommon to see doctors advise euthanasia to seriously ill patients(burn victims, cancer, organ failures) who are poor. Its just that there are no real treatment option at their income level. And death is easy to bear and forget than living through the pain of seeing your family go through helpless moments, and the humiliation of poverty till the eventual arrival of death. Human life takes a lot of make up and dressing to make it look good.

replies_to_all 8y ago

Bitcoin is a life boat, Bitcoin has saved me, you too can be saved Brother, join us.