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points by watwut 10 hours ago | 0 comments

You got out of healthcare, because you realized people want to live?

At any cost? In my country we are open about what happens in nursing homes so old people fill out that euthanasia request. Death is a thousand times preferable to one day with Alzheimer's.

[–] moi2388 3 hours ago

To you perhaps. I want to live.

[–] silverFork 2 hours ago

Nobody forcing anyone. Your wishes are your command.

But many people preemptively seek out a clean ending but many don't have the access when the time comes. Where I am from, many people who are terminal nowadays have big a family reunion or neighborhood party with dancing and all that jazz the day before the ending. Not that I have been to one but I heard about this stuff when visiting someone in hospital.

For many people dying in hospice is not what they look forward too. Dying as mother Theresa would like is not everyone.

[–] 1718627440 2 hours ago

> Nobody forcing anyone.

That's incredibly naive. People do not make choices in a vacuum.

[–] silverFork 2 hours ago

Of course it is not in a vacuum. We are all product of some cultural views or apposition to it. You make assumptions about wishes of others. You can't make people live what you believe in. The choice has to be yours for your wishes and theirs for their wishes. Most people who practice this are terminal. Dementia is terminal.

[–] 1718627440 1 hour ago

Sorry I can't answer, since I do not understand you properly. What do you mean by "X is terminal"?

[–] silverFork 1 hour ago

Alzheimer's has few stages and once it hits a certain stage it is defined ax terminal; they are no cures and no slowing it down after certain stage. There are few other dementia types that are vascular and they are also terminal.

[–] saidnooneever 9 hours ago

its easy to say until the grimnreaper comes knocking. Sounds more like coping that rationalizing.

[–] Borg3 9 hours ago

Do you realise that you actually going to die? Sooner or later. The question is not about death, but quality of live. If you suffer because of illnes that cannot be treated and your life quality cannot be increased to acceptable levels, there is nothing wrong to choose death.

Most people are health enough they cant imagine how bad life can be if you suffer every damn day, and you are at mercy of others.

[–] watwut 8 hours ago

The original story is about someone getting out of healthcare, because they encountered chronically ill people who really really wanted to live.

[–] mlry 4 hours ago

No. It was about someone getting out of healthcare because there they encountered the scum of the earth who would scam and fraud and exploit dying people with this wish to live.