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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am never doing this to my kids.

Lingering well past the age of a normal, decent lifespan, illness after illness, treating and testing and poking and prodding and for what?  So my kids, who I would die for, can burn themselves out and be miserable?  So I can lose all my faculties and then my dignity?

No fucking thanks.

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I'm with you. Once I am diagnosed with something life threatening and am past a certain age or once I can tell I am losing it, I want to chose my death date. Up until then I shall party, eat anything I want, see the friends and family I want to see, tell everyone how much I love them and then I want to pass away in a deep slumber. I want my funeral to be festive and fun-a celebration of life.[/quote]

THings wil look different when you are there.  I have seen many people say this when they are healthy, but when they get to that moment, they just do not think they are there yet.  [/quote]

This xs infinity.  I just lived through this with my mother and a terminal illness.  People can visualize and say all they want what they would do under certain circumstances, but when you’re in the thick of it, living it, facing your own mortality, all bets are off and people often change their mind.  Same goes for the people around you who aren’t dying.  Many won’t want to sit in a room waiting for you to take that deadly sleeping pill and toast you farewell, because it’s too stressful for them or they can’t let go.  Hopefully you won’t face this dilemma, but I’ve lived it, and people who say they would do something don’t and people who say they would never do something do.  [/quote]

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