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There is a current trend to enable this peaceful dying and I'm a huge fan of allowing people to have the right to die. But absent cost as a factor (I don't wan
by scarejunba 8y ago
There is a current trend to enable this peaceful dying and I'm a huge fan of allowing people to have the right to die.
But absent cost as a factor (I don't want to blow all my savings on myself - rather leave them to wife+kids), pain isn't a reason for me to go.
My early years were in the rural Third World where I had a whole bunch of near-fatal diseases as a young child and (unrelatedly) nearly committed suicide when I was a late teen, early adult.
The one thing I'd really like is a "resuscitate at all costs" marker. Imagine if there were a consent token marked upon your body, written into your bloodstream. Medical staff just test it and it says "let this man die", "put this woman through all pain so that she may have a few more days", or "kill this person actively if this happens".
There is pain so unbearable I want to quit. But I was wrong so many times in the past. Put me through it again and I'll want to quit but if I make it I'll be glad I failed to.
Force me to live. Let me say I must be forced.
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