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How do you feel about assisted suicide at the end of your journey in this life. I am definitely in favor of it. I was a nurse for 40 years and saw too much suffering. I wish it was legal in my state. And, I don't know if this is allowed on here, but what means would the common person use. I am not in any way ready , nor do I have any illness or plans for this. I'm just one who thinks ahead.

crazycat329 7 Feb 4
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If ends the pain or the person in question won't have a decent life quality, I'm in favour.

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I'm very open about death and dying. I've talked to my adult children about it. After working in a nursing home most of my life, I saw too much. I saw children keeping mom or dad going with more procedures, more trips to the hospital, more IVs, more torture. Because " I'm not ready to lose mom/dad,yet". They know I never want to be a burden to them. They know I do not want to be in a nursing home. They know I couldn't bear to lose my quality of life. I told them, that when the time comes, I will find a way to leave this world on my own terms, and that they have to know this is what I wanted. Advanced directives are in place. Mausoleum niche bought. Urn bought. Just have to set up the cremation details.

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It Will be kind to the terminally ill person.

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I support a person's right to choose it.

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If the person is of sound mind but not body, I am for it. I watched my father inlaw beg his doctor to give him something to end his life, it was heartbreaking. A person should have the right to ask their doctor for meds they could take on their own to peacefully end their life.

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I've seen death and the slow process of dying. I have a best friend with terminal cancer say "Living is hard, Dying is harder". It's a personal choice to end suffering and I believe in it. We are able to put our pets out of their misery, why should humans suffer?

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I agree.

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Completely agree. I don't like how people are forced to live through excruciating pain just to die. That could takes months or years even with "terminal" cases. Don't even get me started on becoming paralyzed. I was paralyzed for a short period of time after a fall when I was a teenager. Never have I been more afraid of anything else after that. I wouldn't want to live like that. Or with being in a coma or with cerebral.disorders, Not having lived the life I have already.

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In favor. I have seen people slowly waste away and noticed neither dignity nor necessity in that.

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I am against assisted suicide. As a nurse, I have seen suffering too, however no person is an island and I think there is no real way to be sure that this is the individual's own desires or someone elses'. Already in some countries, we are seeing assisted suicide of the mentally ill, children and I even read about someone who was intractably obese being assisted to end his life (assisted as he wasn't able to). I think it is a very quick leap to 'assist' those 'undesirables' in society. I cannot comment on someone taking their own life, that is a personal choice but we never have the right to assist someone to end theirs. People are not sophisticated enough.

I suppose coming from the same county as Harold Shipman, I have a different view. I once cared for an elderly lady who told me that every time she saw her granddaughter she would complain about their cramped home. The old lady told me that if she went the house would be available for her grandaughter and that was why she wanted to end her life (she was refusing all interventions). I said, but don't you want to live and she said, 'its not about me now is it'. We have not made sophisticated enough tests to ensure another person is not influencing us. I hate seeing people suffer and it crushes me when someone tells me they want to die. My usual response is, 'do you want to die or do you want this suffering to end?' I have never encountered anyone who said they wanted just to die. For the most part the members on this site are intelligent and thoughtful but most people just aren't. We can convince people they are a burden when they really aren't, we can convince people their suffering cannot be relieved when it can.

I’m an RN too. There’s zero nobility in suffering.

I’ve told my family, no one has the right to make me get painful treatment and/or ‘live’ in agony; don’t even ask. I’ve seen, especially in Hospice, family begging and/or coercing the patient to try one more round of chemo, get a feeding tube, see another specialist, etc, because THEY can’t let go.

For me, a mentally competent adult can choose. Mental illness, big gray area.

@Amisja , I'm in reasonable good health and sound mind. And I've been telling my daughter for years to help me out when the end comes. I've seen to much death and the pain it caused the dying person. If a dying person wants to die they should be allowed to discuss it with their doctor. Their doctor should be able to help. Period.

@CarolinaGirl60 No I agree with that.

@CarolinaGirl60 I suppose it is the difference between taking one's life and assisting someone else. It is too dangerous to place that decision in someone else's hands.

@Amisja That’s why the states that allow it have a process, and the person gets the meds and takes them home. At that point, it’s there if they want it.
A great documentary on the topic is How to Die in Oregon.

@CarolinaGirl60 That isn't assisted suicide. I can do that...32 paracetamol and I'm done for. That is suicide (no chance btw, I am way way too nosey for that)

@Amisja You’d die of liver failure, which might not be as fast as desired. With Nembutal ( most used drug), it’s minutes. I agree it should be called ‘assisted dying’. Those who get the drugs are terminally ill already.

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I feel it's a personal decision and not be controlled by the morality of a group.

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Absolutely 100% in favor of people being legally permitted to make their own decisions regarding their own lives.
Including how and when they end.

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