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> I'm not sure that when my time comes, that I want money to be spent keeping my body alive while my brain degenerates. If one can't enjoy those extra years, wh
by giraffe_lady 3y ago
> I'm not sure that when my time comes, that I want money to be spent keeping my body alive while my brain degenerates. If one can't enjoy those extra years, what is the point of having them?
Famously an opinion held mostly by people for whom this choice is remote and abstract. In practice what we find is that when this reality is imminent, people overwhelmingly choose to live. Regardless of what they claimed they would want when they were younger and healthier.
- Qem 3y agoIt makes me sad the way people discount elderly people lives, as some lesser form of life not worth living anymore. It makes me skeptical about most proposals to regulate euthanasia, because once it's normalized, I suspect social pressure will start to build-up and press seniors to request it, even when they don't really want.