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Originally Posted by Jiggy_12
I feel that. My Father chose MAID at the end of 2020 and you nailed the feeling of that day and the weeks leading up to it. Most surreal day of my life
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It definitely sounds unfathomable for everyone involved in the days/weeks leading up. I'm sure this is oversimplifying, but is it just kinda that the grieving process starts early?
I wonder if it also removes a coping sentiment: "at least they are no longer suffering"...it's probably a bit harder to make that argument pre-emptively.
And this might be a really bad analogy here, but I think it might speak a bit to our emotional/logical fallacies: many people have no problem eating meat despite knowing it came from an animal who may have had a poor QOL and was killed in its prime...but we might also struggle to watch that happen or pull the trigger ourselves. There might be something 'easier' about just waiting for that inevitable phone call that a parent/loved one has passed instead of having to confront it, even if you logically know that the MAID option means less suffering.