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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is why everyone feels the boomers are so selfish they live so long and then instead of using the wealth they took from their children for inheritance they burn it up in elderly care[/quote]

What should they do then, kill themselves?[/quote]

Stop life prolonging measures.  That's what I will do.  It's actually pretty simple.   If it's pain just give me pain killer, let me get addicted, then I'll die a painless death.  Seriously, I won't need a new hip after 70 or a heart or whatever, just pain killer if I'm in pain.[/quote]

So, you forgo the hip replacement and you're addicted to drugs.  How long will this go on for?  I'm assuming you still eat and therefore poop, right?  How do you get to the toilet?  Do you just poop yourself and sit in your waste and develop deep bedsores?  Does your family watch this happen and you refuse their help, so the place stinks and you're in filth and they're to stand by and watch it happen?  Or do they help you up to use the toilet and then clean you?

Or if you refuse to eat and take meds, does your family just allow you to lie in the bed uncared for until you die?  How long until you die?

It's not simple at all.  Your choices are going to affect your family. It's not as if you decide you're done and you're dead in 3 days.  It's slow and painful, but since you're drugged up or delirious you don't realize it.  It's not simple.[/quote]

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