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I think the flip side to that feeling is that people are young and healthy, and that when they're no longer self-supporting, they'd rather be gone. Here I'm ov
by jfengel 2y ago
I think the flip side to that feeling is that people are young and healthy, and that when they're no longer self-supporting, they'd rather be gone.
Here I'm overgeneralizing from the N=1 case of myself. But I had always been young-and-healthy, and even at middle-aged-and-healthy, I have a hard time visualizing the impending disabilities.
I've also got the bias of being comfortably middle-class. I will be able to afford the help I need for basic disabilities. It's easy to imagine that by the time I run out of money for that, I'll also have run out of interest in limping (literally) along.
There is a very strong chance that I will have a change of mind once actually faced with them, but it's really hard for me to have an emotional understanding of that now. So I need to point out that there is a very dark aspect hanging over that belief that you will take care of yourself in your age, just to take that out and consider it, even though I can't resolve it.