No desire to rot away in an old people’s home, saw my grandmother do that and not for me.
Interessant, dass die durchschnittliche Lebenserwartung in der Schweiz weitere 1-2 Jahre höher ist, wenn man die assistierten Suizide herausrechnet.
Oh no, people with no more quality of life decided for themselves to go with dignity instead of being forced to languish to not offend our sensibilities and fear of death!
I don’t like the wording of that title at all.
It could have easily said “offer of assisted dying is being taken up more” or something. Calling it suicide (which it is *technically*, but it’s not what **comes to mind** when you hear suicide) is a deliberate choice.
What a degenerate title.
One of my colleagues has chosen assisted suicide as a way to go. He had a very painful, incurable cancer and was switching between painkiller cocktails weekly.
Ich bin ja in einem alter, wo die sache aktuell zu werden beginnt. Und ich würde viel viel lieber meinen todeszeitpunkt selber wählten als womöglich jahre lang in einem ~~gefängnis~~ pflegeheim sinnlos dahinserbeln zu müssen. Im grunde könnte die AHV das sogar subventionieren, denn sie wird ja mit jedem suizid möglicherweise von jahrelangen rentenzahlungen entlastet.
I am not surprised. Seeing how my parents are living through the last of their life is awful. Mon, 87 has vascular dementia, a haematological malignancy that has spread to the bones, and a form of escoliosis that give her severe mobility problems. Dad, 83, has COPD and is currently in remission for lung cancer. He cannot up go a flight of stairs without resting. Also, he is Parkinson disease tht he refuses to treat because nothing is wrong on his head. Beyond the awulfness of seeing this happening in front of your eyes, and no doctor intervene to ask ” is this how you really how you want to leave”. It just just treat-treat-treat and delay-delay-delay the inevitable. It is just awful to watch this unfold. My mother in law, just passed away at 95. She is relativelly good health until de very end. But it took 2 people 24/7 to take care of her.
And also, there is the finantial situation. Switzerland is one of the countries where people has the highest drop of income when they become elderly. A considerable part of that demographic is living below poverty line, If you complain that you salary don’t strech as much as it used to strech, think that the 80 year old lady cannot look for a job or have a raise. She probably retired with 4000k/month in 2000, and have lived with it ever since
Personally, I don’t want to go like this. I don’t want to be the person who is there, but is not really there. I don’t want to be the burden to children. I also don’t want to burn through resources, resources and more resources, has for another 2 months of life in very poor health. I can’t even afford a cleanning lady, let alone 2 people taking care of me 24/7. I don’t want to be parked in a residence with bad food and a farting room mate when I cannot take care of myself. I’d rather go on my terms, have a party and let the people have a good memory. I don’t want the aunt that went mad and was a nightmare to han
i am not surprised at all. Seeing all this, knowing the finantials, being sure that support network is gone, it will be probably my decision as well. ‘d rather go on my terms, have a party and let the people have a good memory. I don’t want the aunt that went mad and was a nightmare to handle. I don’t want to live through this indignity until the inevitable happens.
I am glad some elderly are smarter. I plan to do the same if i ever reach that stage.
my grandfsther should habe died 2-3 years ealier.
the last years were awful.
granny and him did anything to extend life. in the end he spent the last years only in bed and needed 24/7 attention and was filled to the limit with meds i doubt any doctor even kept track of properply.
startin to treat cancer on a 80+ old should be forbidden. and we pay all higher insurance every single year because of stupid things like this (:
So everything works right, good to know. Don’t force people into things they don’t want
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Fully plan to take advantage of this…
No desire to rot away in an old people’s home, saw my grandmother do that and not for me.
Interessant, dass die durchschnittliche Lebenserwartung in der Schweiz weitere 1-2 Jahre höher ist, wenn man die assistierten Suizide herausrechnet.
Oh no, people with no more quality of life decided for themselves to go with dignity instead of being forced to languish to not offend our sensibilities and fear of death!
I don’t like the wording of that title at all.
It could have easily said “offer of assisted dying is being taken up more” or something. Calling it suicide (which it is *technically*, but it’s not what **comes to mind** when you hear suicide) is a deliberate choice.
What a degenerate title.
One of my colleagues has chosen assisted suicide as a way to go. He had a very painful, incurable cancer and was switching between painkiller cocktails weekly.
Ich bin ja in einem alter, wo die sache aktuell zu werden beginnt. Und ich würde viel viel lieber meinen todeszeitpunkt selber wählten als womöglich jahre lang in einem ~~gefängnis~~ pflegeheim sinnlos dahinserbeln zu müssen. Im grunde könnte die AHV das sogar subventionieren, denn sie wird ja mit jedem suizid möglicherweise von jahrelangen rentenzahlungen entlastet.
I am not surprised. Seeing how my parents are living through the last of their life is awful. Mon, 87 has vascular dementia, a haematological malignancy that has spread to the bones, and a form of escoliosis that give her severe mobility problems. Dad, 83, has COPD and is currently in remission for lung cancer. He cannot up go a flight of stairs without resting. Also, he is Parkinson disease tht he refuses to treat because nothing is wrong on his head. Beyond the awulfness of seeing this happening in front of your eyes, and no doctor intervene to ask ” is this how you really how you want to leave”. It just just treat-treat-treat and delay-delay-delay the inevitable. It is just awful to watch this unfold. My mother in law, just passed away at 95. She is relativelly good health until de very end. But it took 2 people 24/7 to take care of her.
And also, there is the finantial situation. Switzerland is one of the countries where people has the highest drop of income when they become elderly. A considerable part of that demographic is living below poverty line, If you complain that you salary don’t strech as much as it used to strech, think that the 80 year old lady cannot look for a job or have a raise. She probably retired with 4000k/month in 2000, and have lived with it ever since
Personally, I don’t want to go like this. I don’t want to be the person who is there, but is not really there. I don’t want to be the burden to children. I also don’t want to burn through resources, resources and more resources, has for another 2 months of life in very poor health. I can’t even afford a cleanning lady, let alone 2 people taking care of me 24/7. I don’t want to be parked in a residence with bad food and a farting room mate when I cannot take care of myself. I’d rather go on my terms, have a party and let the people have a good memory. I don’t want the aunt that went mad and was a nightmare to han
i am not surprised at all. Seeing all this, knowing the finantials, being sure that support network is gone, it will be probably my decision as well. ‘d rather go on my terms, have a party and let the people have a good memory. I don’t want the aunt that went mad and was a nightmare to handle. I don’t want to live through this indignity until the inevitable happens.
I am glad some elderly are smarter. I plan to do the same if i ever reach that stage.
my grandfsther should habe died 2-3 years ealier.
the last years were awful.
granny and him did anything to extend life. in the end he spent the last years only in bed and needed 24/7 attention and was filled to the limit with meds i doubt any doctor even kept track of properply.
startin to treat cancer on a 80+ old should be forbidden. and we pay all higher insurance every single year because of stupid things like this (:
So everything works right, good to know. Don’t force people into things they don’t want
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