I’ll gladly remove myself and the burden of caring for me if it comes to an incurable illness. Better I leave my wife with more resources than drain all those and still leave.
And argon or nitrogen can easily be had at welding supply stores…
There is an ever so slight difference between the appeal of jumping off a building, slitting your wrists, overdosing on some self-made drug cocktail, … and having a professional inject you a syringe of carefully dosed substances which will make you comfortable drift off into the eternal void. Not just for the patient, but also everyone around them. In the past, I had to comfort a friend who was severely traumatised after a patient of hers jumped out of the hospital’s window after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis.
TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Do they not already? I work out a lot to prevent myself from being a burden if I’m older
einkorn@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Overall yes, but that pressure might be magnitudes greater when there is “an easy way out”.
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
And what is wrong with that?
I’ll gladly remove myself and the burden of caring for me if it comes to an incurable illness. Better I leave my wife with more resources than drain all those and still leave.
And argon or nitrogen can easily be had at welding supply stores…
einkorn@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
You shouldn’t draw conclusions about others from yourself.
Some people might still value what they have. And who are you to tell another what others should do with their live?
DrownedRats@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Again, there already is an easy way out. All that would change is the manner in which is happens and whether it happens professionally or not.
einkorn@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
There is an ever so slight difference between the appeal of jumping off a building, slitting your wrists, overdosing on some self-made drug cocktail, … and having a professional inject you a syringe of carefully dosed substances which will make you comfortable drift off into the eternal void. Not just for the patient, but also everyone around them. In the past, I had to comfort a friend who was severely traumatised after a patient of hers jumped out of the hospital’s window after receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis.