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My plan is to intentionally OD on opiod patches if it gets to the point where I'm too sick to live independently and am burning through savings to suffer like that.

The gift route gets clawed back; the system is designed to take all your money first before subsidizing care.

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In my country(India), if you go to government hospitals(which is the only place the poor can go), its not uncommon to see doctors advise euthanasia to seriously ill patients(burn victims, cancer, organ failures) who are poor. Its just that there are no real treatment option at their income level.

And death is easy to bear and forget than living through the pain of seeing your family go through helpless moments, and the humiliation of poverty till the eventual arrival of death.

Human life takes a lot of make up and dressing to make it look good.

There is something deeply disturbing and saddening in the honesty of your comment and sibling comments regarding this topic.

There are some lives that I simply don't consider worth living.

Nah, I get that part. The part I don't get is where did we, as a society, fail so badly for people to even consider the things that I read around this thread.

If you're going to die, might as well die on your terms

Better hope you’re able to do it for yourself when the time comes. I’ve thought the same after watching my parents deal with my father’s Alzheimer’s.

As a person who had grand parents with Alzheimer’s, it's starting to sound like this is my better option. I can go through pain, suffering, and what not completely with it or I can slowly go out without knowing or understand anything that is going on. I think I will take the latter.

A good living will and instructions for trusted friends/family/SO to carry out goes a long way for that.

Its easy to take your life, its impossible(for decent people at-least) to take some one else's life.

Friends and family aren't exactly hitmen.

Most people aren't that 'rational' (or willing to go to jail)

Im thinking the same thing, however i am still young. My mom has been telling me your views on death change as you get older and closer to it.

If my grandfather's fight with liver cancer was any indication, I'll accept it when my time comes, too.

I've had a similar experience with most of my grandparents, they suffered unnecessarily while we were unable to do anything. One grandmother died peacefully only because she had Alzheimer and she was out of touch, but the early period of Alzheimer was unbelievably degrading to her and to our memory of her. Why would anyone want to go through that?

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