Posted on 09/03/2011 2:10:44 PM PDT by wagglebee
I do not want to die slowly, I want to die quick.
This daughter has some severe mental issues.
Her mother was not terminally ill, and I am surprised the nursing home went along with this plan.
I cannot imagine wanting your mother to die, when your mother does not have a painful, terminal illness.
Sick, very sick.
being 88, partially paralyzed, etc. hardly qualifies for "nothing physically wrong with her".
perhaps she was wiser than anyone else around her at the nursing home trying to potentially, what, cure her?
Our bodies know. Enough is enough. It happens all the time.... not everyone writes a book about it.
“I do not want to die slowly, I want to die quick.”
Don’t we all. I admire my grandfather in that way. Died at 74 of a quick heart thing. Lived a fairly decent lifespan and got to see all his grandchildren, but also died still able-bodied, active, and with his dignity intact. He was aware for some years that he had a bad heart and showed no interest in getting surgery. And I think that’s exactly how he wanted to go.
From my perspective, if you end your days as a decrepit husk in a nursing home, you did something wrong.
How to die:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_LaLanne
How to not die:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Baugh
As for this:
“This daughter has some severe mental issues.
Her mother was not terminally ill, and I am surprised the nursing home went along with this plan.
I cannot imagine wanting your mother to die, when your mother does not have a painful, terminal illness.”
This woman’s mother was (despite her strokes) obviously still in complete possession of her mental faculties since the two of them both devised this “plan” together. While I can’t fault the old lady in the sense that she herself made the decision to die, the home should not have helped them go along with this.
In short, her condition could not have been _that_ bad. This was not an Alzheimer’s patient or some other moribund person.
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