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Anonymous wrote:I think this post may get the award for the most insensitive of the night.

+1 Old people shaming is vile.

+1

No one has responded why stinky babies, homeless people, teens, etc. should just die since they also offend the olfactory senses.

Cocaine at 80? How about 75?

Anonymous wrote:Ya, I'm thinking of taking up smoking or some other horrible vice to make sure I die of cancer instead of living forever in living hell. I think cancer, if it is going to kill you, kills you in less than 2years?

I have had the same thought - taking up cocaine or heroine on my 80th birthday...

Ya, I'm thinking of taking up smoking or some other horrible vice to make sure I die of cancer instead of living forever in living hell. I think cancer, if it is going to kill you, kills you in less than 2years?

Anonymous wrote:Op never said this was an "end of life" situation. She just referenced stinky old people who should did. A lot of people are projecting here. In any event, whether or not someone should choose to fight for every day should be their choice alone. My mother chose to fight when the odds were stacked against her. I don't think I would have made the same choice--but of course, none of us really know what we will actually do until we are actually faced with the decision. No one has a right to decide someone else's life isn't worth living. Pp was right right. Should we just wish all smelly humans (elderly, babies, homeless, ill, incontinent, etc) dead because they offend our olfactory senses? Seriously, what is wrong with people in this area?

Nope, i was just reflecting about my own choices when the time comes. I have seen two of my grandparents live a decade or so beyond when they felt they had a decent quality of life, and have had tlmake a diificult decision sbout my own mother. I dont make light of this, and I know all too well the tradhedy of seeing a life snatched away before it blooms. I have seen enough to see this "culture of life" bullshit for what it is - a payday for the medical profession. Do you think it is coincidence that none of these doctors want to end up jn hospitals themselves?

It goes beyond end of life palliative care. Obviously this intubating 90-yr olds thing that they do here is bullshit. But I want to go when i lose my marbles, not after starving myself to death 10 years after i have lost it.

Going around being stinky must suck. Old age is not for sissies.

Op never said this was an "end of life" situation. She just referenced stinky old people who should did. A lot of people are projecting here. In any event, whether or not someone should choose to fight for every day should be their choice alone. My mother chose to fight when the odds were stacked against her. I don't think I would have made the same choice--but of course, none of us really know what we will actually do until we are actually faced with the decision. No one has a right to decide someone else's life isn't worth living. Pp was right right. Should we just wish all smelly humans (elderly, babies, homeless, ill, incontinent, etc) dead because they offend our olfactory senses? Seriously, what is wrong with people in this area?

I agree. After grandpa could no longer see, control himself or physically do anything (dying of cancer), and was shaking from the pain, we wished we could do something for him. Thankfully he was only like that a month, but I can't believe anyone would want to prolong the worst month of someone's life.