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End of Life Issues

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cilla4progress

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Wed Oct 20, 2021, 12:01 PM Oct 2021

This may not be the right place for this discussion - please correct me, if not. [View all]

Have there been conversations here about considering assisted suicide or death with dignity for oneself?

I know so many families who are in the throes of struggling with an elder family member who is for all intents and purposes intellectually dead - doesn't know who or where they are, doesn't rrecognize family members, etc., but is being kept physically alive, because that's what we do in our society. Some are institutionalized. Some are home. All are involving a large amount of money to keep them going. No quality of life . I don't want this for my family. I don't know where it comes from in me


Fortunately I live in a death with dignity state. Any thoughts on this, practical ideas?

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