As I find myself failing in health, I’m starting to soften toward assisted suicide. I’m nowhere near it yet, but I’ve had enough really bad days to at least contemplate it.
#### that!!!!!!!!
I’ve been living with a BEAST of a head injury for 11 years.
300k soldiers are living with them!!!!!
what should they do?!?!!
You suffer and you enjoy what you can and you pray and you hope!!!!!!!
No mother ####er is taking my life EXCEPT GOD!!!!!!
I’ve suffered enough for ten lifetimes. So what?
who the #### a I to decide my newphews and nieces and mother dont need me or that my assisted death wont affect them at all.
I SPIT on the injury and I SPIT on death. Whenever it is ready to get me, it will come.
Like Russell said in Gladiator “death laughs at a man. All a man can do is laugh back”
Kinda true about life too.
But I’ll be ### damned if end it one second sooner than God planned and show my nephews and niece i was a coward.
Why most you involve someone else? Is it so hard to kill yourself?
My former hardline stance against it got blown to smithereens when I was an insurance agent working with senior citizens. After a few months I saw with my own eyes people who were on anywhere from 8-24 daily medications and/or oxygen just to stay ‘alive’, and how the side effects from their maintenance medications alone were horrible to endure. At least a couple of them said bitterly or pitifully “If I wanted another pill for some reason they’d write me a prescription in a heartbeat but if I wanted a pill to actually END the pain they’d put me in a padded room.”
I was shaken to the core of my being that elderly men and women - some decorated veterans - were not allowed to plan a day when they could leave their pain-wracked existence surrounded by friends and family instead of whoever can make it to the hospital in time, if anyone. That even saying you’re THINKING about it is literally thoughtcrime that can get you locked up.
Yes obviously allowing assisted suicide can lead to abuses if not VERY carefully monitored and controlled...but as things stand we are making human beings endure suffering that a decent man wouldn’t make the family dog go through.