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[quote=Anonymous][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]
It is so messed up to have to fly so far to have death with dignity. It’s fine to put dogs out to end obvious suffering, but not ok for humans. In nature, if you have dementia and you can’t feed yourself, can’t go to the bathroom properly, can no longer recognize your loved ones, you would probably meet your demise quickly as well should be the case. [/quote]

This. My mom and her mother, both difficult people to begin with became more abusive and downright terrifying with age. I pray I do not become like them, but the thought I could cause my children even a fraction of the pain I have experienced from my mom's outbursts and tirades is horrifying. My father on the other hand was kind but became unable to feed himself, use the bathroom or bathe, talk or walk...all he could do was make noises of distress. Why should my hard earned money go toward allowing me to live longer with no quality of life while potentially destroying the mental health of my children? I hate that I have to research my options abroad and figure out how to time it all so I can say my goodbyes and have everything in order, but be at just the right level of decline that I can still fly out there and do this.

We really need to get more comfortable with the idea of death with dignity and a person's right to chose to die peacefully rather than spending years and years in hell.[/quote]

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