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[quote=Anonymous]Attestupa is available by much kinder, gentler means these days - but not yet in America.

Having spent the last seven years as a hospice caregiver, I believe it is incredibly inhumane that we do not embrace planned end of life in a time when medical science can keep our bodies living on for a decade or more after almost all quality of life is gone and our spirits and minds exist in misery.

For those people whose very elder years are such low quality that they wish to exit the rock, there should be access to medical aid in dying absent an immediate terminal diagnosis.

We are seeing now the negative effects of increasing lifespan through science, and they are very ugly indeed.

The only people I have cared for in the last 7 years who weren’t begging to die were younger folks who were dying of cancer in their 60s. The elders in their 80s and 90s have all been very tired of life and desperate for death to take them.

It’s sad that we cannot grapple with our cultural anxiety about death and let people have total control over this most important aspect of a life. It is hard to think of a life as well lived when the last years of it are so bleak and lacking in dignity.[/quote]

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