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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
The bolded is callous - .1% of the population thinks like that. People delay putting down their pets for six months because they can't handle it, they aren't 'sending grandma to the glue factory'.
I'll agree, you can't kill someone who hasn't requested it in a living will. I would guess that when the practice becomes legal, everyone who's been to a nursing home and thinks it seems like a special kind of Hell will be signing up for the early Alzheimer's exit plan.
Both my grandparents have dementia/Alzheimer's. They live in the same facility in Sherwood Park, and see each other for six hours a day. They're safe, they seem as happy as their situation would allow, but the people that I knew growing up are gone. So it's fair to say I'm certainly biased in one direction, but certainly would never advocate putting them down.
My grandparents never wrote wills. They seemed to think it was a bad omen. But if they'd written it in that they wished for assistance ending their lives when the people they were before vanished, I'd be on their side.
As human beings, we deserve this option.
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I agree that my phrasing was callous. But the article above states that families are putting pressure on doctors to end people's lives. Now the reasons may be altruistic most of the time but if you go to a nursing home there are plenty of people who have been dumped and forgotten by their families. I don't see it as that much of a stretch to see people justifying to themselves that it is for the persons own good when really it is for there own convenience.
I am in general in favour of assisted suicide but I am aprehensive of how it would be implemented.
I have a different view of nursing homes I guess. Mostly because both of my great grandparents died within a year of needing a high level of assistance. Before that they were in the assisted living section of their nursing home where meals were cooked for them and there laundry and rooms cleans but they were still highly mobile. There metal capacity wasn't what it used to be and it is those types of elderly people that I am afraid would be pushed into ending their lives.