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[quote=Anonymous]Say you can live to 80 without any problems, maybe the last 20 years you are a much higher risk of developing problems. If you didn't have kids, your first 80 years of life would be of a much higher quality without burden and you would also have way more money to take vacations, eat well etc. Someone on this thread mentioned having an advocate and my mom was like that for her mom but she was such a hindrance. She was obsessed with the notion that the nursing home was neglectful and that was why my grandma fell. When my grandma eventually developed a UTI and kidney infection while bedridden, my mom blamed the home but it really wasnt their fault. She doesn't and still doesnt understand how being immobile lowers someone's immune system because "I thought when mom was no longer walking, that she wouldn't have any more problems". And then when the hospital took two hours to inform my mom of her death, she complained again about how they might have tried to hide something but really, at what point do you pathologize death? I think it really had to do with her guilt that she wasn't able to care for her mom the way she did for her mom's mom. So personally, I don't see the need for an advocate. If you're so sure you will be abused at the end stage of your life, then it's better to end it earlier on your own terms. [/quote]

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