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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no kids to dump on so have no choice but to be a super planner.  I will just choose medical aid in dying with any cancer I get which makes me very strange.  I live in a medical aid in dying country so that is a better way to go.  I do my own cognitive testing as 95% of people avoid the elephant in the room, too busy worrying about losing their driving licence than their mind.  You have a really long window of cognitive decline where you are still competent and can check out in Switzerland if you really want to.  Most people do not, they would rather just bury their head in the sand and try to live forever.

I find the concept of care workers tending to me to be morally repugnant, very "massah and the slaves," so again I will choose medical aid in dying in the early stages. I agree with Emmanuel Ezekiel and don't see any point to living to old-old age, certainly to any age where you can't look after yourself.  Most people think they are doing society a favour by living as long as possible, so they mask their fear of death with a veneer of moral indignation.  
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UnfortunAtely, Most of us on dcum don’t have that option.[/quote]

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