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Extremely biased article, bordering on propaganda. Not everyone dying is an ongoing expensive burden, and care facilities aren't miracle cures. Many people need

Extremely biased article, bordering on propaganda. Not everyone dying is an ongoing expensive burden, and care facilities aren't miracle cures. Many people need somewhere to rest on their way out.

JshWright 7y ago
How can someone relating their personal experience be "biased"? Anecdotally (in my experience as a paramedic), I agree that many people significantly underestimate how hard it is to care for someone who is dying.
- prepend 7y ago
  > How can someone relating their personal experience be "biased"? Aside from all stories we tell being biased there are many ways a story I tell about my experience can be especially biased. Exaggeration, omission, conflation, and then there’s outright deceit. There’s also the possibility that what I believe is real is not [0]. I don’t like assuming the worst or accusing people, but I certainly don’t think that all personal accounts are completely neutral. People usually tell stories with some motive and I think it’s valuable to be politely cynical, a bit. [0] https://www.ncsc.org/microsites/trends/home/Monthly-Trends-Articles/2017/The-Trouble-with-Eyewitness-Identification-Testimony-in-Criminal-Cases.aspx https://www.ncsc.org/microsites/trends/home/Monthly-Trends-A...
  - JshWright 7y ago
    > Exaggeration, omission, conflation, and then there’s outright deceit. That's not bias, that's lying. For what it's worth, the author's experience certainly matches my own (working as a paramedic). There are a lot of people out there who have significantly underestimated how hard it is to care for a loved one who is slowly dying.
gumby 7y ago
This was not about the paients per se, but about the caregivers.
bsder 7y ago
> Not everyone dying is an ongoing expensive burden An increasing amount are. Dementia is increasing. People live longer and wind up with strokes or extreme feebleness. Having had a parent with Alzheimer's, if I go that direction I will make sure to end my life. Why would I ever want to subject my family to taking care of me with something that cannot even hope to be slowed down let alone cured?

Extremely biased article, bordering on propaganda. Not everyone dying is an ongoing expensive burden, and care facilities aren't miracle cures. Many people need somewhere to rest on their way out.

JshWright 7y ago

How can someone relating their personal experience be "biased"? Anecdotally (in my experience as a paramedic), I agree that many people significantly underestimate how hard it is to care for someone who is dying.

prepend 7y ago
> How can someone relating their personal experience be "biased"? Aside from all stories we tell being biased there are many ways a story I tell about my experience can be especially biased. Exaggeration, omission, conflation, and then there’s outright deceit. There’s also the possibility that what I believe is real is not [0]. I don’t like assuming the worst or accusing people, but I certainly don’t think that all personal accounts are completely neutral. People usually tell stories with some motive and I think it’s valuable to be politely cynical, a bit. [0] https://www.ncsc.org/microsites/trends/home/Monthly-Trends-Articles/2017/The-Trouble-with-Eyewitness-Identification-Testimony-in-Criminal-Cases.aspx https://www.ncsc.org/microsites/trends/home/Monthly-Trends-A...
- JshWright 7y ago
  > Exaggeration, omission, conflation, and then there’s outright deceit. That's not bias, that's lying. For what it's worth, the author's experience certainly matches my own (working as a paramedic). There are a lot of people out there who have significantly underestimated how hard it is to care for a loved one who is slowly dying.

gumby 7y ago

This was not about the paients per se, but about the caregivers.

bsder 7y ago

> Not everyone dying is an ongoing expensive burden An increasing amount are. Dementia is increasing. People live longer and wind up with strokes or extreme feebleness. Having had a parent with Alzheimer's, if I go that direction I will make sure to end my life. Why would I ever want to subject my family to taking care of me with something that cannot even hope to be slowed down let alone cured?