Possible TW - do you see yourself choosing Assisted dying?

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Yes, I couldn't agree with you more
Thank you for your compassionate comment 💚

Yes, absolutely, my DF chose to end his life after terminal diagnosis, never got to say goodbye, fortunately I’m at peace with it, I am a supporter of assisted suicide.

Yes completely concur with you
Just made this very same statement a few days ago to one of our dear friends, whom's lovely father, is begging to be taken, he's in so much pain & suffering
We wouldn't think twice, for our Beloved Pets
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Definitely. I don't want to end up incapacitated in a care home. Luckily deaths in my family have all been painless and dignified. That's a lottery we can't keep winning.

Yes, absolutely.
I’m off to Switzerland if I get a dementia diagnosis. I’m not living like my father is now or putting my kids through what my family are going through.

part of my father’s dementia is losing the ability to swallow. Eventually his only option for nutrition will be tube feeding which he’s already refused (he expressed his wishes when he was well). So he’ll slowly starve to death. Hopefully sedated so he’s not in too much pain discomfort. And we’ll all linger by his bedside waiting for him to die and might or might not be there with him and for each other when the time comes.

can someone explain how that is more humane than a doctor saying “right, it’s tube feeding time which he’s declined so get everyone together and we’ll send him on his way with a massive shot of morphine, surrounded by the people who love him.” Because to me starving sounds fucking barbaric and assisted dying would be better for everyone in those circumstances.

Yes

I suppose you have access to all you need then. The rest of us need to go to Switzerland/Belgium.

Absolutely. My mum died from a horrible disease that just made her get worse and worse physically and mentally. She died from an unrelated infection, probably due to neglect from care home (she was only 60 years old) but it could not be proven.

If I get the same illness I know what to do. No way I'm going to let my children see me suffer for years.

At 75 of course I will.

But not because of potential wars or the creeping privatisation of health care.

But because I no longer want to live.

Your, I mean the generations below me, concerns about war and climate change and all the ways humans could end, are, to an extent, not my problem any more.

I've done what I could do, if now I prefer to die, it really isn't your business, is it?

I have cancer ( well 2 cancers). If I ever get to a point where I’m in stupid amounts of pain and they want to slap a fentanyl patch on me, I will do what I can to be euthanised ( somehow!)

I would if it meant a pain free more dignified end but I doubt I would ever be able to afford to, I don’t think it would be available on the NHS, their mission is to save lives.

Yes if I get the chance too if it seems dementia or horrible painful illness us imminent.

No.

I am a vet nurse and see euthanasia most days , it is a blessing that we can put to sleep an animal who otherwise could have a lingering stressful possibly painful death.
The manner in which we do it is peaceful dignified and filled with love , the advancement of sedation and euthanasia methods makes the days of less peaceful euthanasia a thing of the past thankfully -or it should do if vets and their team put thought into the protocols they follow.
Even though i absolutely understand that there are gray areas around euthanasia in humans i can't see how it can possibly be wrong when a sick dying person of sound mind asks to be 'put to sleep' in a similar manner with their loved ones surrounding them , holding them and soothing them as they pass peacefully on into the next life.
How i help my patients pass is exactly the end i would choose.

Yes. I saw my mum dying of cancer, I held her hand actually when it happened. Someone from the family has dementia and got maybe week left. Absolutely devastating for everyone involved. There is no way I want to go like this

Yes absolutely.

i would happily choose this for myself. For practical reasons.

Problem is, people would be offing relatives they don't like/want the inheritance from.

I've always known that I will die at a time of my choosing. I just hope Ill be able to do so in my own country and not to have to die alone abroad.
I've worked in the NHS for more than 45 years and I believe it everyone's right to choose when they go.

Yes. If my daughter (disabled) dies before me I would like the option of a controversial free suicide.

I don’t know. My greatest fear is dementia and unfortunately I don’t think it would ever be covered . It isn’t a terminal illness. Also even if the scope was wider you have to be able to consent. I don’t think consent in advance would work as someone would need to decide when to assist at which point the doctors may say I don’t have capacity to say whether I changed my mind and am happy living that way.

I’d definitely take the option if it’s available when I’m older. I watched my dad, my nan and my dog die in very quick succession, the only one afforded a peaceful and painless death was my dog.

Google says that Oregon legalised assisted dying in 1997.
Now, 28 yrs later, about 2% of Oregon deaths involved "assisted dying."

So I don't see more than 4% of UK deaths would involve assisted dying 50 years after AD gets legalised in UK.

It's not a decision I have to make today. I would be open-minded to AD if the quality of my life was terrible and couldn't be improved.

Absolutely yes. My Mum was in a lot of pain, deteriorated in health over ten or so years due to a degenerative illness. It was awful for her and her family.

It’s so important to have the conversations with our families.

I bloody hope so because I don’t want the end of my life to be the long, protracted hell that many people have no choice but endure.