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[quote=Anonymous]For the last decade I’ve been working in home care, primarily with elders and many with Alzheimer’s and related dementias. I’m an educator and attorney by education and experience but fell into this work after family caregiving and then deciding I didn’t want to get back on the legal career hamster wheel.

I’ve met some lovely families and cared for some lovely people, but the primary takeaway for me has been a firm resolve to plan my exit from this existence before I become incapacitated, and to trust in a lifelong friend to assist me if somehow I don’t get out under my own power before my marbles are too scrambled. Our plan is for her to take me out in the woods in winter and leave me there - I’ll be written off as one of the many demented victims of their own eloping.

The research I’ve done indicates that the Eskimos/Inuit practiced both senilicide and invalidicide primarily in times of crisis and limited resources. This is where we get the notion of them putting elders on an ice floe and setting them adrift in the freezing cold ocean, which was only one method at their disposal some were worse. But in general from what I’ve seen of death and know about the science of hypothermia, it wouldn’t be a horrible way to go compared to some others one could suffer. Get cold, fall asleep, stop breathing sounds better to me than a half dozen years or more a shell of my former self, incontinent and incoherent most of the time.

The USA needs federal legislation legalizing medical aid in dying (MAID) and providing for a patient to contract for such medical care while still of sound mind and have it provided them when they have decompensated to unsound mind. This is a moral imperative when the government is slashing funding for entitlements and healthcare and thus obliterating options for the poor, working and middle classes to cope with the care for a decompensating loved one for years upon years. 
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