End of life, what are your preferences?

Definitely hope to prolong it after 80 for another 20 years by drooling in the retirement home being cared for by people with too less time and not enough proper funds.

 

mosquitos

 

as a person ages little annoyances add up, diminished flexibility, joint pain, having to take bothersome medications, it all piles on and you don't really take cognitive notice as you go about living life than one day you realize you can't bend down to cut your toenails and then finally you wake up one day your in a damned nursing home because your family worried you weren't taking proper care. That's how it happens and you don't even realize. OK that's over simplified I'm aware but it just how it goes, if you one of the 'lucky' ones. Otherwise you die young and no need for bothering with the indignity of the aging process.

 

Once again displaying the stupendous level of my own ignorance.

 

Or one drop at a time

 

After working with Hospice for several years, I realized we don't know how to die gracefully here in America. I would not want to linger on for years or months not knowing or being mobile enough to enjoy life. Just as a flower grows from a seed and eventually blossoms the flower also withers away, as shall we......

 

Are you suggesting we pass age restriction laws, because that’s what your statement implies

Once someone reaches 80 they should be terminated with extreme prejudice. think of how much money we can save on the healthcare industry


Hotwater

 

For life to end... No fancy stuff.

 

I see the angle the OP is coming from. When it all boils down to gravy, The doctors, Hospitals, Homes, Etc pump you full of meds and shit to keep you alive for the all mighty buck!
You are in pain, Pill cost 16 cents. The doc bills your company $16 for that same pill and they settle on $12.
My knee was in the $70k range and the doctors/university settled on $52k. Not un common in the least and im surrounded by people in the medical field that all they do is bitch about these say things.

If it were by choice, I want to go out with a bang! Like trying to jump a river on a dirt bike, Or 37 buses, Something cool like that.
Now I don't want to end up sleeping with many un clean women and getting syphilis and having my mind and everything else fail around me, Along with spreading it to many.
I don't dwell on shit like this, Fate will take its course, Long, Short or otherwise. I can only hope for a quick and painless end. We all have our own destiny's.

 

Id like to be put in a giant blender then poured into the town water supply

 

i hope im still able to choose my way out before its too late

id really hate to be stuck in a hospital with no hope at all just waiting to die and not being able to do anything about it

 

deranged smoothie

 

well i don't want to make a big production out of it, but i would prefer to be alone, in a state of meditation. or asleep, having a really nice dream.

i get the chance, i'd like to be someplace out in the middle of nowhere so that no one can find me to drag me into one of those damd places where they confine people until they do.

 

My mom, brother, sister and I will probably be taking my father off life support in the next few days. He had a fall a few weeks ago and broke a couple of ribs. They found out at the hospital that he had pneumonia, which probably contributed to the fall by making him weak. Anyway, he has in his living will his wishes to not be resuscitated or kept on life support. He is on life support right now until they determine the extent of brain damage caused by blood clots going to his brain while in therapy to get his strength back (he has Parkinson syndrome and was having trouble coming back from his fall).

It's good to plan ahead and make sure you have a living will to help your family make final decisions for you.

This is exactly how I feel. I'll be watching for symptoms of any condition that will render me incapable of taking care of myself. Hopefully I will have the ability to take appropriate action in time.

 

In order to actually reply properly to the thread...I want to die alone somewhere isolated from anyone. Other than that I don't care how I die as long as I don't have to be stuck helpless in a bed while my family feels helpless to make me feel better.

 

I want my loved ones to go all Old Yeller on me.

 

Some people want to go out with a bang, like these people who shoot up malls and schools. I always wonder if they wanted to end their lives, why not go out on human trafficking compounds or something?

 

However you want to go out, make a living will. Decisions are so much easier for your family. We took my dad off life support yesterday and he passed in about 20 minutes. Had he not had a living will, he would still be lying in bed right now while we wondered if he wanted us to wait and wait for a sign of recovery. We actually went against his wishes for a day waiting for neurology to determine the extent of damage (only because we felt bad for mom).

Get everything in order now if you want to make things easy on your family.

 

Sorry to hear about your Dad expanse. May he rest in peace. Peace to your family also.

 

That's deranged.