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tell me you haven’t been around old suffering people without telling me. I literally think your comment is crazy. Like batshit crazy. Go into a nursing home in
by lurking_swe 1y ago
tell me you haven’t been around old suffering people without telling me. I literally think your comment is crazy. Like batshit crazy.
Go into a nursing home in the U.S. sometime and walk the halls. Tell me if you think the majority of those people are waking up with something to look forward to? Some of them are sitting in their own shit for hours because the nurses are too short staffed. I’d rather be dead than sit in my own shit for hours while being in chronic pain, and abandoned in a nursing home.
There are other reasons to choose death too of course. But i digress. I’m not in the mood to make an exhaustive list.
If you’re old and in okay-ish health, and have _something_ to look forward to (hobby, seeing grandkids, reading, etc), then it’s a different story.
- Noumenon72 1y agoWhen I volunteered at a nursing home an attendant complained to me about a guy who wouldn't make the effort to go shit but expected staff to dig it out for him. Why bother choosing to live if you don't find it worth even that much effort.
- howard941 1y ago[flagged]
- qualeed 1y agoWhat a gross misrepresentation of the above comment. Sad. The operative word is "choose".
- howard941 1y ago[flagged]
- lurking_swe 1y agoif they want to live then let them live. Who said i want them to choose suicide? I don’t care what you do, you CHOOSE. That’s the point. I’m not sure if you fully understood what i wrote, but whatever? A choice. That’s all that’s being argued here. I’m explaining why someone would want to rationally make such a choice. It’s not that complicated. Life is not a video game where the goal is to live as long as possible regardless of the “cost”. Of course i support this as a last resort. Interventions should be made first. Therapy, family support, medicine, whatever.