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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really hope that by the time I get to 80 there will be options like they have in Switzerland now. I would love to go at 80 at the latest. [/quote]

I have a chunk of money for the Switzerland trip.[/quote]

Me too. My mother is 82 and has dementia. I absolutely do not want to live like that and plan on going to Switzerland or where ever else I can die in peace. I have told my kids and husband I am 100% sure I do not want to live with dementia so please help me go to Switzerland when the time is right. The tricky part is there is only a short window when you start to decline and are still able to make decisions and plan for yourself. Any later and you can't do accompanied suicide in Switzerland.

I really hope that in 30 years this option exists in the United States. I really think more elderly people would chose it. I don't want to burn through all the money I have saved to be but in a memory care facility wasting 100,000 a year. I would much rather my children have that money to live a better life.

Meanwhile it is ridiculous why there is such aggressive medical treatment for elderly. I realized when my mother was prescribed a dementia/alzheimers drug it potentially EXTENDS your life 2.6 years without improving your life. It in no way reverses or stops. It just delays the inevitable.  Luckily it upset my mother's stomach so it was stopped. I don't want her life extended 2.6 years since she already has moderate Alzheimers / dementia. [/quote]

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