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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm 70 and I agree with your mom.

I run the dogs, muck out the stables, and ride my horse 6 days a week and I will do a swan dive off a cliff into the ocean before I'll go to a nursing home.[/quote]

So what's your plan to not F over your kids when you get older and can't live independently anymore? Or do you not care about them?[/quote]

I don't have any kids. I live in a state with assisted suicide.[/quote]

Yeah, good luck with that assisted suicide. You need a diagnosis from a doctor that you have a terminal illness with death expected within 6 months to qualify for medical assistance in dying -- you can't just waltz in and say "time for me to shuffle off the mortal coil." And if you do choose a DIY method, FFS do it responsibly. Clean out your shit, put your affairs in order, and commit suicide in a way that won't traumatize the people who have to deal with your body. Like tie a very heavy rock around your legs and make sure you jump really far off that cliff into deep water so that you won't splatter on the rocks for the EMTs and law enforcement to clean up or so that your bloated corpse doesn't float to the surface for the EMTs and Coast Guard to deal with.

I'm serious here. My husband used to work as an EMT, including a wilderness EMT, and it's hard to underestimate the trauma that dealing with the body of someone who committed suicide or died in a grisly outdoor accident can inflict on those whose job it is to clean up the mess.[/quote]

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