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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will choose medical aid in dying when I need care, outside of something temporary that I can recover from.  I already take the SAGE Alzheimer's screening each year, download it from the University of Ohio.

I am not living with Alzheimer's and I'm not living when I can't look after myself.  I don't like being touched by strangers. I have GAD since birth so I preplan everything, "intolerance of uncertainty" is the diagnosis.  I have my cats enrolled in a survivorship program.

I can choose medical aid in dying for chronic illness in my country, Canada, and that is what I am going to do.  I don't have any kids to dump on and my estate is going to a friend's daughter who is wasting her life in a helping profession, making a pittance, so she will be poor in her old age.  She doesn't know she will inherit.

I certainly am not going to leave my estate to the elder care industry and be a profit maker for them.   [/quote]

+1. My husband and I have an arrangement about what we’ll do, including how to know when it’s time to do it. We do have kids but I’m not putting it on them to be my caregiver and I’d rather leave them an inheritance than use up every last dollar getting mediocre care when I’m already feeling like shit. [/quote]

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