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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, what is your solution?[/quote]

A fair question. I don't have a definitive answer. What I have learned is that aging is incredibly hard and scary. For all of those who say (in theory when they are younger) that they would want to just die rather than face the challenges of aging are frequently delusional. Every single person I have been forced to help at the end of life has been terrified of "being over", for lack of a better word. Even in one case where he said: I want to die. It turned out he really didn't want to die, he wanted his life to be fixed.

I also think it is a huge stressor for those having to deal with it. It certainly about killed be--which is only slightly hyperbolic.

I guess my solution is that we have to help them help themselves. If they won't, then I do think that we can't feel guilty.

The thread that got me earlier today was about the mom with heart failure. I am not there, but the idea that she should just go to Hospice when the mom didn't want to felt problematic. But I also realize that I am not there. I would just like for people to think in nuance rather than in black and white.[/quote]

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