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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Three of my great grandparents ended their days in the best, priciest nursing homes money can buy, and only after we were no longer able to care for them in family members' homes.  One died of Parkinsons, and his last years were agony.  He lay in bed and could not move or speak for two years.  Another had a stroke, and spent several years in an immobile state: humiliating and agonizing for a previously active, private person.

It was horrific, and it broke each of their hearts to have to leave their homes.  And those places WERE horrific.

My beloved grandma had to go into assisted living (again, the very best money can buy), and I will never forget her sorrow the day we helped her pack up to move.  It was terrible.  It broke something in her.

Those places are horrific for anyone who is a private person who values a home that is a refuge from the world.  They are maybe OK for somebody who did not love and cherish a beautiful house for many years, and who does not mind being surrounded by others all of the time, and has a close family member who can visit every single day.

I know I will be miserable in one of those places myself, and I don't want to waste the money it would take to maintain me there when that money could go to my family.  I hope euthanasia is an option when my time comes.  If it isn't, I'll make a plan to go to Dignitas while I'm still healthy enough to get there myself.  That doesn't seem so bad to me, especially when I remember the horrible final years of my great grandparents and grandparents who ended up in nursing homes and assisted living.  [/quote]

It is not good for anyone, old or young, to be a hermit and place value only on the physical structure.  [/quote]

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