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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I confess that when my parent lingered in a nursing home for 4 years, Coronavirus would have been a blessing. You get to the point where your parent is legally alive, but not living.

There are entire communities where the elderly are kind of warehoused and dependent upon aides to dress, bathe, move, toilet, diaper change, feed and otherwise attend to and it’s all impersonal and isolating. My parent was in a lauded, expensive facility in a private room and it was beyond depressing and dire. We hired a private duty aide and visited to ensure our parent was rarely alone. Otherwise, the frail elderly are left alone for hours. Call buttons ignored.

My parent literally wasted away and died while sleeping. I’ve changed my medical directive that I am not be be kept alive by any extraordinary means/DNR. [/quote]

This. I think coronvirus in nursing homes is an act of kindness from the universe. [/quote]

We are all not so secretly hoping this takes my 99 year old grandfather with "the stats of a high school athlete!" and very limited mental capacity...[/quote]
Won’t the Coronavirus kill him with pneumonia? Is that really the cause of death you want for him? That’s an amazing hope for you to have, if I take you right.[/quote]

Obviously not ideal, but he wanted us to take him out somewhere and shoot him with a pistol if he ever lost his mind, after working full time until 92. So yes, no one is exactly fretting about any cause of death for a mentally incapacitated turning 100 year old. Have you spent much time on some of these late seniors floors? It's basically an act of mercy. [/quote]

He obviously read Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men

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