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If life had no off button (I.E, you didn't die of old age, just remained middle-aged until accidental/planned death):

  1. Would you choose to live on, endlessly?

  2. If no, what age would you choose to die at?

  3. Do you think assisted suicide should be an option for those of sound mind?

BohoHeathen 8 May 7
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Absolutely! The only way we should live forever is if we stop new births. And one look at Congress, you realize that many men already live too long.

Lots of old there.

And on Our dime..gaaawd forbid We should have the same coverage..

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  1. I would choose immortality. The opportunities for learning and adventure are limitless.

  2. I think assisted suicide should be an option in certain circumstances.

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We all live forever, just not in these bodies.

@BohoHeathen That is so true but unfortunately you will not be aware of it

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  1. No. I have no desire whatsoever to live "endlessly".

  2. At whatever age I am when I can no longer wipe my own ass. Once that happens, I don't want to be around anymore.

  3. I absolutely believe assisted suicide should be an acceptable and legal option.

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To add years to life is one thing.
To add life to years is another.
I guess it's a matter of overall quality of life, physical and emotional, rather than a matter of numbers.
Some kind of medically assisted life termination, was recently legalized in Quebec, under some very specific rules. The person must be in some very unbearable and hopeless medical condition.
The father of my sister in law chose to go through that procedure. Eventhough if was a very emotional moment to live, so to say, for family and friends, everyone thought it was the right thing to do.
He even volunteered to give away some of his organs that were still usable. So all the transplant staff was ready at the date and time chosen for the "procedure".

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That scenario wouldn’t work very well IMO. It’s asking too much to have people choose to die. We are hard wired to survive so before long the population would be staggering. What would people eat?

Best to go with the flow—enjoy the natural cycle of infancy to old age and then move on, making room for younger people.

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If I remained middle aged (40 - 60) and everyone else did also, I would choose to live forever. That was the best time of my life and I enjoyed it all.
I fully support a person's right to terminate their life in any manner one chooses, assisted or otherwise, and at any time.

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  1. No.
  2. Back when I was 65, and still believed that there was hope for humanity and the biosphere.
  3. Yes. It should be an option for everybody, including those who some might consider to have a mental disorder (see # 2 above).
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I agree that assisted suicide should be an option for terminally-ill people.

My great aunts and great-grandmother lived into their 100s, strong, slender, mentally sharp, active and living alone. I take after them.

My great-grandmother asked for a push mower for her 90th birthday. "I want the exercise," she said. Dad gave her a push mower. She lived to 106.

Hope to be hiking into my 90s. I can always downshift to easier, shorter hikes.

I want to enjoy nature my entire life.

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I believe in self-determination, the process by which a person controls their own life. The ultimate control of one's life is the choice to live or not. We don't have the ability to choose this life... but I believe we each have a right to choose to stay in this life. And if I was brave... I'd be making different choices.

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I would think after just about all the people I knew and loved were gone ,I'd probably lose the will to Continue. In Life you have to live for someone

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Hell yes put a pound in the bank do nothing for a few hundred years then go on amazing adventures with all that money you earned as interest . If someone has an incurable disease and is suffering then yes they should have the choice to end it .

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  1. Yes, I’d live as long as possible, as long as it was comfortable and feasible. I’ve said I want to live to be 100. I want to see how technology evolves.

  2. If I had too, at least 100.

  3. Yes.

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I hate being alive right now as it is so I already went past that age it would seem. I think there is an extremely high likelihood I will end it before life gets to end me but who knows really.

@BohoHeathen Those obligations are the reason I'm still here. I know all too well how it affects people. My best friend killed himself in his early 20s. It had a bigger impact than I would have thought. My life was doomed from birth, few people on this site really have any clue what that is like. I think there is little awareness that most on here aren't really that much more intelligent than people n other sites, it's more they have had a pretty good life that's worked out well for them. Now, that's a generalization that will not stand up to individuals lives. Of course, everyone suffers in life and bad things happen to us all. What do you get if you take an 18-month-old and beat and torture them until they are 9, then give them drugs and alcohol? Leave that kid with no father and a prostitute mother who only comes home every few days with a new guy to beat that kid? You get me basically. I have gotten over all that shit a long time ago but epigenetics did not program me to live in this society. No amount of therapy will ever be able to reprogram that. I believed all the people that said I could find freedom from it if I just lived my life the right way. I dedicated myself to that for decades and achieved more than I ever dreamed I could. Now I just realize what all the people around me are really like and I have little respect for the human race any longer. Humans are arrogant self-centered creatures that are too caught up in our own emotions to ever really able to see reality. I keep looking for a reason to go on but I do not believe I will find it. Maybe it's the being in constant pain for 20 years that makes me feel that way. I think it's just a lifetime of being kicked in the teeth that leaves me with no joy in life, I've been alive long enough to know feeling change like the weather so I have no idea where or when life will end but just knowing it will end is some comfort. We don't seem to have much problem with people that are sick ending it but when someone just says fuck it I'm done it scares us. Maybe we should look at the real reason why this bothers us so much. There is no logical reason to endure such suffering for nothing you ever do will really matter in a thousand years.

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Assisted suicide cannot be regulated and turns doctors' ethics on its head. Should you be able to sue a doctor who won't assist your suicide? Everyone can commit suicide (you might not like how you have to do it) and the only way you know if someone really wants to die is if they do it themselves. Otherwise suicide hotlines would be against the law--we think people that are suicidal have a mental defect. We shouldn't sentence someone to death because the medical profession hasn't adequately found a way to treat pain. That being said, EVERYONE should have the same right to die---someone who lost their whole family in the Oklahoma City bombing and doesn't want to live anymore. or someone who has the artificial "6 months to live." Anything less violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

lerlo Level 8 May 7, 2019
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Unrealistic but good for terminally ill

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Every man and woman will say i) I want to live so long I will be able to think. ii ) so long I will be able to feel . Other thing like movements, memory loss, skill, power , sexual power may vary from man / woman to man/ woman. But all these are the thoughts of early stage when one is fit to run his or her life not the thoughts of those who reaches the point just before death. Only endless unbearable painful patients wants to die. Not any other one thought of death just before the point of death if he or she were in senses.

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I'm gonna die at 95..that's long enough..Or 110..that's really pushing it..but if I'm not cognisent then I'd want out..so yeah suicide would be an option..

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Yes, I would live on endlessly in my middle age years assuming good health etc. I feel over the centuries medical tech will improve quality of life extending it to beyond what we can currently imagine. We will bevable to control pain signals, andvreplace body parts.

I also believe that we don't have to worry about overpopulation once we develop technology to colonize and live in space harvesting the Sun's energy. Remember we are getting a very tiny fraction of sun energy hitting earth, there is a huge, practically infinite, amount available at any other point in space around the Sun.

I am incredibly opmtimistic about deafeating death in a few centuries, colonizing space, and having access to vast amounts of energy and materials.

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1: hard o answer, without context, but I assume no.
2: Based on my 'no' assumption, after a prolonged period of feeling stagnant. If experience brings no joy because I feel I have experienced all I desire, that would be the point I called it. hard to say if that would take 50, 500, 5,000, or 50,000 years 
3: I believe anyone has the right to leave this ride any time they desire. if they  need a hand, and I can help with out repercussions I would be proud to offer them aid.
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I have a plan...personal thing...

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1.Would you choose to live on, endlessly? = No

  1. If no, what age would you choose to die at? = 75

  2. Do you think assisted suicide should be an option for those of sound mind? = Yes

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I think anyone who wants to die should be given the option of assisted suicide to do so, whether they are suffering or not. The bottom line is we have plenty of people on the planet and it doesn’t matter if some of them decide to die early or not.

In fact, I would applaud those who make the brave decision to die in full possession of their faculties, rather than waiting out a number of years in a care home where they can do little and often are slowly losing their memories.

I do think that as the poster says, dignified dying is a human right.

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when I was a young man and a Soldier, I looked at life is an endless test if I was ever adequate it would be a fluke. I volunteered for everything dangerous and failed to in my life in the line of duty. since then I have struggled with the meaning of life, I've come to the resolution that the only thing that makes life worth living is the unremembered acts of kindness to others. I have always believed death is in Oblivion therefore there is nothing to fear. I would not like to choose the time and place of my death I would consider that a cop out.

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1--no.
2--the age that i no longer want to be alive.
3--definitely.

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