Life is a terminal illness and tomorrow is promised to no one.
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I mean they kinda are. It's called hospice and it's when they break open the good shit.
Unfortunately, a lot of people arent.
Due largely to religious bullshit (at least in america), its very very difficult to get death with dignity. My grandma has parkinsons, she wants to go on hospice before it takes her brain, but her doctor is Catholic and decided its against his religion to let her die as she wants to.
Shes trying to find a doctor who will let her, but its very very difficult. Its still considered murder in most of the country, and even most Hospice doctors wont do anything besides not resuscitate. We have to be careful to not call an ambulance for her, because if she goes to a hospital, the doctor is allowed to just ignore her DNR if thats against their religion.
Are real actual medical doctors even allowed to do that based on religion?
Not just allowed, actively pushed to do so.
The doctor she goes to did it, just decided that it was against his religion for her to decide to go on hospice care.
Even if he would allow it, in order for her to get on hospice, her doctor would have to go in front of an ethics committee and argue for her to be allowed to go on hospice. If anyone on the ethics committee objects, she isn't allowed.
California has a right-to-die law (one of very few states that does). You are allowed to die if your doctor can prove that your disease will kill you in 6 months, that you are coherent (at the time of death, you cant sign anything beforehand for it), if you are capable of taking the suicide pills without assistance.
The doctor has to document that you made two separate distinct verbal requests, 48 hours apart. Has to document that your disease will kill you in 6 months, has to document that you are able to take the pills on your own with no assistance (too weak to die? too bad). The case is automatically reviewed (and they will try to take away the doctors license every time).
And anyone involved is allowed to stop you if they object on any grounds.
Killing yourself is a sin in most versions of Christianity, so its effectively illegal.
Hospice is not the same thing as assisted suicide though
True.
But Hospice is generally required to get to assisted suicide tho.
Or at least, it was when my dad finally got to die.
The normal doctor wouldn't do it, the hospital didnt allow it except for in hospice.
And then we had to fight for a week to get the hospice doctor to let him die.
They don't. They base their decision on religion, but they justify it with big medical and sciencey words. But they'll tell you it's due to their faith (if they're so bold).
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I got severe pushback from a nurse for saying DNR when I was last in the hospital. It seems that healthcare workers often possess no ethics, standards, or intellect in the USA.
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Are you not thinking of euthanasia? Hospice is like a care home for people who are dying
The marketing department decided on "assisted suicide" because euthanasia is an icky word. Didn't you get the memo?
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that is how hospice works. they won't euthanasia they will just let you die and do theoretical pain management. My mom died of dehydration in hospice because it was "unethical" to just give her a shot of barbituates when half her brain was no longer functioning after a stroke.
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And often just enough to let someone with a weak constitution drift off gently into that good night when they're ready.
It's one of those unstated aspects of it. It's not "assisted suicide," but they'll hook you up with a PCA pump of morphine alongside scheduled doses of potentially more powerful painkillers that will help you just gently drift off into that good night whenever you're ready.
Unless you're in a "right to die" region and have jumped through all the hoops, they can't administer a lethal injection of a substance simply intended to kill. But they can administer enough pain medication to kill a horse. They'll give as much as needed to ensure comfort, which takes priority over organ failure and risk of death, since that is already a bygone conclusion.
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Ok I have an idea. I'm all for giving people the option of assisted suicide, but it's just way too medical and boring! I want something with pizazz!
I have a better idea. The US government has been dying to get back into nuclear testing. I say, let's kill two birds with one atomic bomb! We designate a site out in the Nevada desert somewhere. Then, once a year, anyone who qualifies for assisted suicide gathers there. You have all the regular safeguards existing assisted suicide processes have. Everyone there first says goodbye to their families. Then they walk through the gate, present their ticket, and take a bus to ground zero.
They arrive at dawn. Through the day they have access to every illegal drug one can imagine. Finally at the end of the day, at sundown, a great countdown is held. As the last light of their last day winks out, a second sunrise blooms across the desert. And everyone present goes out in the most epic way imaginable - high out of their minds and instantly vaporized under the light of a thousand suns.
Forget doing this in a hospital or hospice and being given some nasty poison to drink. I want to go out at ground zero of a nuclear explosion! Just put me close enough to the center so I actually get vaporized, not one of those unlucky ones that just gets their skin burned off and has to die painfully over several hours or days.
We'll call it .. burning... man ?
Cute. But my inner engineer and scientist needs to point out that at these temperatures, "burning" doesn't really apply. At these heat fluxes, you don't so much combust as simply stop being chemistry and start being physics.
That's the appeal of it. It's literally the most painless way possible to go out. Your brain has been turned to plasma before pain signals even have a chance to reach it.
Ha, pretty good option. I wouldn't get a ticket. But, seems reasonable.
I'll be outside, in a recliner, fire pit going. My friends all around.
I'd sip some of this & that. Eat my favs. And have both music and "MASH" playing until I fade away.
a famous one in france a lady was suffering a very rare cancer, the govt refused to give her life-ending drugs, so she got some from the streets, barbituates or whatever and just OD on it.
What a legend. 🫡
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We are all suffering from a terminal condition, known as life.
So yeah drugs for everyone.
People ~~with terminal illnesses/in their last days~~ should be allowed to have any drugs they want.
Any adult should be allowed to do whatever the fuck they want with their own body.
I think you might be overestimating the capacity to enjoy anything at that point
People in this thread are romanticising end of life as frolicking happily at a party one moment and slipping away in a magical slumber the next.
Most likely you’d be in bed either crying fo pain meds or asleep after having been given pain meds.
I too would, from where i am now love the idea of my consciousness slipping away while tripping on dmt but i recognize that once the time comes i may not desire nor care anymore.
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Exactly why drugs should not be illegal at any time during life, instead of just at the end when some figment of our moral imagination would allow it out of pity.
If I know I'm gonna be dead soon, realistically, who's gonna stop me?
This reminds me of a former, and actually current coworker. After she gave her notice my previous employer before leaving for my current one, she was freaking out about finishing up a win10 hardening project.
I asked her, "why are you so anxious about it? What are they going to do, fire you?"
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All Drugs should be Legalized.
As long as the behaviour caused by it doesn't affect others, I agree. So Fentalyl, not so much IMO
For adults
Obvious, isn't it?
It's the Internet. You have to specify any and all caveats.
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we're all in our last days pal
There are definitely some drugs I’ve tried that I would not want to do while staring death in the face. But I agree it should be a personal choice. Basically I think it should be at any point in life.
any drugs they want.
How about any drugs they can afford, because that is sort of what we have now (speaking for the US).
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Sure, yes. I don't even do drugs anymore, and was never really into opiates when I did, but my experience coming out of anaesthesia with a nurse who was remarkably free handed with opiates in the IV as she didn't want me to wake up quite yet convinced me that is the way to go. Let me just float out on a soft cloud. It's an annoying feeling when awake and trying to do anything; but as a death it seems perfect.
Drugs should be limited only in regards to they impare people and the activities they do while on them.
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Honestly if you're over 40 or 50 and you're using it yourself and not sharing it, I think you should be able to legally do drugs regardless. At that point you know well enough what it will do and should be free to decide.
I'd say if you're old enough to be drafted or vote.
An adult.
I've always said this, and that age was a long time ago for me.
They key is proper education. If I understand the risks, then it's on me.
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I for one wpuld love tp try heroine, but I know myself well enough that I am sure I'd get severely addicted and hit rock bottom pretty much immediately. So that's my deathbed wish.
Yeah I snuck in Cigarettes to my grandmother in hospice. She wanted them, asked in between gasps for them. So I did. We wheeled her outside and let her smoke.
After that they didn't let her back out until she died. I sort of understand but at the same time, what is she holding out for? Its over. They treat dying adults like children and I think that's wrong.
Agreed, I can't wait to load up on Adrenochrome when I'm a little older.
i agree! i was terminal, uh, something like twenty years ago we should throw a party. some people get all of the luck. what i mean is, do i still get to cash in?
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