Nobody dies any more
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Anonymous
| They just continue on becoming smellier and smellier. I will be ready for the death panels when they come for me. |
Anonymous
| Home for Thanksgiving, are we? |
Anonymous
| Really? I'm pretty sure my mom is dead. |
Anonymous
| It's going well, eh? |
Anonymous
| I agree, OP. Years of extreme old age look like hell. I'd rather die suddenly well before I reach that stage. |
Anonymous
| There are worse things than death... |
Anonymous
+1. I don't understand why some kids want everything medically possible done for their parents when mom/dad is incontinent, demented, bed-bound, and basically a vegetable. |
Anonymous
This country is the worst for it. They are always trying to incubate 90 year olds or give 86 year olds liver transplants... |
Anonymous
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This is great writing on the subject:
http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay/ |
Anonymous
When you need to pull the plug on someone you love, you'll understand. I say if other people not dying bothers you, try dying yourself. This may give you the needed perspective. |
Anonymous
Read the article above. It isn't the dying people that are desperate to live. Nor is it those that have been close to them in the final years. It is those that fly in from hundreds of miles away a couple of times a year and seek to show how much they care. Were you one of those? |
Anonymous
Not pp, put that is a really offensive question. You have no idea of the hell and grief other people have been through. |
Anonymous
| I think this post may get the award for the most insensitive of the night. |
Anonymous
+1 Old people shaming is vile. |
Anonymous
It's not an offensive question if you have been a caretaker of a terminally ill loved one. You would realize their pain and empathize with the person suffering. There is nothing wrong in death with dignity. |