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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My vague plan is to go to the assisted suicide Pegasos clinic in Basel if I’m ever diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or something where it will clearly be a long, horrible, irreversible decline. Last I heard it was $11,000 and no terminal illness diagnosis required. [/quote]

+1 You’ve posted about this before, I’m pretty sure. I looked up the clinic and this is now my plan, too. Lol It gives me comfort to know that something like it exists. [/quote]

They will be overrun by the time I get there.  There is a business opportunity here.  It should be part of estate planning to die with dignity when you chose.[/quote]

My mother is 80 -- so very top of the Boomer generation.

I think as more Boomers age, there will be activism to make death with dignity possible. They have watched/are watching their parents age and see how quality of life can easily erode, even without diagnoses like Alzheimer's.

It only makes sense to let people decide for themselves how they want to live and die.

We have a death with dignity law in New Mexico, but it doesn't apply to individuals with cognitive impairment -- which is sad, because they were a driving force in getting the law passed.

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