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InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Just being pragmatic here, but the answer is yes, you can hire such a person. It would be a terrible, terrible idea. As for the other options you mentioned, just don’t do it. There’s no scenario where these methods don’t traumatize survivors, bystanders, first responders, and just random people – none of whom deserve that.
I know someone who came home to his partner’s dead lifeless body after a hanging. I know someone who found their child several days after an intentional overdose. I know a truck driver who suffered life threatening injuries as a result of avoiding someone trying to end their own life.
And I only saw some of the trauma suffered by those folks, I’m sure the real trauma was far, far deeper.
LetMeShowYouAThing@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I hate to say this, but I’m not sure losing a loved one to dementia isn’t just as traumatic, and I think the trauma could be mitigated here by communicating with the people they love.
When/if I am diagnosed with a terminal disease I hope I will have a conversation with my wife, the rest of my family, and my closest friends about how I want to die and what a life worth living looks like to me. I like to think that I’ll leave this world by my own hand, hopefully surrounded by the people I love, or at least with their understanding and support. I don’t think that’s selfish.
OP, I think you have time to figure out what’s best for you and yours. We’re all terminal in the end. I wish you a slow progression, a meaningful life, and a dignified end someday.