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I'm a NP and I wouldn't want to live like that. My grandparents had full active lives and passed away in their late 80s after a few weeks of suffering. I refuse to spend $$$$ to be in a bed with a feeding tube down my throat and no mental cognition. This is my idea of hell. [/quote]

But practically, how would you pull something like this off?

It sounds like I'm joking, but I'm not. I don't really want all of my savings to be blown in my last year(s) on treatments I don't want, but I'm not really going to expect my children or spouse to smother me with a pillow. A living will is fine, but don't those only apply if I'm unconscious?[/quote]

overdose on pills. [/quote]

That's much harder to accomplish than you think.

I'm a hospice worker and you would be surprised at the incredible will humans have to live. [b]Intentionally killing yourself in the absence of depression is nearly impossible.[/b][/quote]

Also, do you mean that the person's emotional will is such that they would not want to end things?  Or that physically ending it is difficult? [/quote]

I mean humans have an intense desire to live even in the most dire of circumstances. Right now as a healthy person, you think that you will just take some pills and kill yourself. death creeps up on you, you do not go from active to in a big intubated over night. It is a gradual process that people fight every step of the way.

Even in hospice, i see people fight until the bitter end, I never see resignation until the last few days. Unless you have severe depression and already flirt with suicide, do not hinge your financial planning on suicide.[/quote]

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