Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Ten states and Washington DC all support "assisted suicide" as an option for the terminally ill. In addition, all states have DNR options and advanced healthcare directive (living will, durable power of attorney) options.
One of these days I'll fill out an advanced healthcare directive form, but I'm not ready to face my own mortality yet. I still think I'm going to live forever. |
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Most things I worry about Never happen anyway... -Tom Petty |
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Just another piece of evidence that it is religion (not money) that is the root of most of the evil in the world. SMH
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Medicated Vet ... For your protection. Quote from Boot Camp Company Commander: "I'm gonna have to issue you all plexi-glass belly buttons, so when you have your heads up your asses, you can at least see where you're going." |
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There are other types of suffering, suffering other than physical pain. When someone feels they can not endure the suffering of mental illness, poverty or lack of love, (Or even harder the pain of losing a loved one), should the option exist to legally end your life then as well. There are many variables that exist with this topic. While fighting stage 3 can, there were days I felt I could not go on. I begged my wife to please let me just stay in bed. Looking back, I am not able to understand how I was thinking back then. Today, feeling better (Beat the c but have pain from the procedures), I can not comprehend how I could have been ready to give up. I am glad my wife quite literally dragged me from the bed, by my foot to the chemo. Had to explain the large lump on the back of my head to the doctor. Life, unfortunately, comes with pain at times. I find emotional pain more difficult than physical. Making it acceptable to throw in the towel would, in my opinion, lead to the end of lives that may have much more to contribute.
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True story: once upon a time there was a man named Tucker Stilley. He was a musician and a multi-media artist, and successful in the film editing business with his wife, who was also an accomplished film editor. They had a gorgeous daughter. And then he was diagnosed with ALS.
He prepared for it, gathered his friends and family to help him get through the trauma of slowly becoming a "brain in a jar". He was only 30-something when he was diagnosed. He passed away just two years ago, at age 60 (we were the same age). He spent more than 10 of those years in bed, immobile, unable to speak, eat, or breathe on his own, with tubes for feeding and waste, using a thing called an "eyewriter" and an overhead computer to communicate (sometimes one letter for each word at a time) and do art. By the end, he only had the use of one eye, which made communicating especially difficult. I - would not have been able to live like that. He was a hero to me and to hundreds of other people who knew him, family, friends, admirers, co-workers, teachers, neighbors. He also had financial support through donations, since disability didn't cover his home care at first, and the costs for oxygen, tubes, health monitor machines, the hospital bed, 24/7 nurses (not merely home care - actual RNs) exceeded $10,000 per month. But I know that if I was informed that my last days would be spent as a brain in a jar, I would want to end it before it progressed that far. I wouldn't be able to handle it at all. If you've ever read Frank Herbert's Dune series, it'd basically be a Guild Navigator in a ship out in space, in mid-fold, that didn't ever actually go anywhere. I'd likely tell them - once I'm no longer able to breathe or eat without tubes in my neck and stomach - it's time to let me go. I can't even imagine - and I've tried. I wanted to empathize with Tucker. But I just was incapable of it. I can't imagine it. He was amazing. Created art, which was replicated by a host of volunteer assistants who took the digitalized artwork and brought it to life in galleries for sale (which also helped support him and his care). His daughter has no memory of him being healthy. She just graduated from college. An amazing family. But - that's a true story of what someone -could- do, should they choose to stick with it to the end. You need some serious fortitude to withstand that kind of existence I think. But Tucker certainly had that. |
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