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Originally Posted by Dion
I was a volunteer in a Calgary nursing home for a number of years where I would visit a woman in her late 70's who was blind. You could argue she had every right to want out of life. The facility didn't cater to the blind and other than me and her 2 daughters, she didn't have a lot to live for.
Dispite all that she was happy. She enjoyed our visits that often included me pushing her in her wheel chair around the court yard, me reading the newspaper to her, coversations and by weekly games of Bingo in the games room. PCA's and nurses said she was delight to work with everyday.
Sometimes life comes down to an attitude we have about it.
TBQH I have wondered if we will get to a state where we put our elderly in Pods when they become a burden to society, both cost and housing wise. A slippery slope type of thing where this Pod thing changes over the years where we reach that point, I hope not.
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You say she was happy, but I wonder if you would have asked her straight up what she would have said. My mom seemed happy enough, right up until she put a gun to her head. If my dad was able to find her sleeping peacefully in a pod instead of discovering a horrific mess that would have been a lot of extra trauma avoided