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> you are not in a quality of life threating condition This seems very wrong. IMO few things are worse for quality of life than slowly losing your mind.
by eikenberry 7y ago
> you are not in a quality of life threating condition
This seems very wrong. IMO few things are worse for quality of life than slowly losing your mind.
- Someone 7y agoIn context: “when you have still few effects related to it they can't accept to eutanize you because you are not in a quality of life threating condition” All people over 75 (and, probably, way earlier) are slowly losing their mind. Early stage dementia isn’t that different from ‘just’ aging in that. The ethical dilemma with living wills is that they always state a past opinion. It also is well-known from various studies that opinions on when you deem your life worth it shift tremendously over time. With dementia, locked-in syndrome, etc, that’s a catch-22, as there’s no way to ask you about your opinion, or even to know whether there is someone to have an opinion anymore. So, that you say “If I get wheelchair-bound/bedridden/don’t know my name anymore, I don’t want to live anymore” now doesn’t imply at all that you will think the same if it were to happen to you. ⇒ If you have a living will, be sure to regularly acknowledge or update it.