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Originally Posted by blueash
IMO a compassionate society would include in its list of options, that of patient chosen painless death. Like the woman above who had the option by turning off her pacemaker, we all should have the option to die on our own terms, not requiring hanging ourselves or shooting ourselves.
Nitrogen inhalation would be one good choice. A narcotic overdose would be another. We do it for our pets but deny it to ourselves. I have never had any person give me a reasonable explanation as to why this humane option is not provided to us.
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Yup. Because we couldn't afford long-term care insurance, we'll have to exhaust all our savings, and lose our home, just to be eligible for a nursing home. We don't have enough income to pay for our home AND home health care, and we never earned enough to save hundreds of thousands like some people could. We lived within our means, and we're still living within our means.
But many people don't realize that "within" our means also means not having extra to save for 1, 2, 5, 10 years of needing 24/7 nursing care.