The right way is uploading, and from there we've got literally orders of magnitude more time. But seeing as that might take a while, if you're certainly going t

The right way is uploading, and from there we've got literally orders of magnitude more time. But seeing as that might take a while, if you're certainly going to die, and are looking at a decreasing quality of life...go out on your own terms. More than one doctor has told me I'll be having severe mental issues in late age. And I've seen even "normal" function decay in older relatives. There's no way anyone in a healthy state would be OK with ending up like that. Yet since it happens slowly, a day at a time, we let these terrible things happen. For me, once I know I'm getting near that downward slope and uploading isn't around, fuck it, I'm going out on my own terms. Big goodbye party, family, and a few grams of diacetylmorphine. It's sad as shit, but I think having random hazy visits that could each be their last, but spread out over months or years -- that's much worse. And for people not dying at that time, yeah, it's probably more acutely painful to you see someone go from 50% to 0% over an hour. (And wow, how do you even decide when it's time to end the party and go for it? "Well, it's getting late...") And maybe it's traumatic to say goodbye to a coherent person. But it seems a much larger tragedy to overwrite many of your memories of that person with memories of a shade they've become. Edit: On second thought it might be better to have a goodbye party but actually terminate rand(2h,20h) afterwards. Less traumatic.