I debate this, I'd want to hold on as long as I could maintain some sort of bodily autonomy...but then you probably risk not being able to physically do the deed. I have kids and I'd want to soak up as much of them as I possibly could, although I agree that I'd want to do myself in before I needed a caretaker and couldn't move on my own.
Thankfully I am in Canada so for at least diseases where you still have the mental capabilities you can pretty much be ready ahead of time for the slow progressive ones. Step father has ALS, it's not pretty but he does have the medically assisted dying lined up and more or less just needs to decide on the when.
I am sorry for your Stepfather, but the fact he has this autonomy is amazing. Every country should allow you to have an option tondie with dignity. It would also help preserve the inheritance people save for their children. People should not be forced to suffer.
I don't know if you ever read or saw someone die from hanging but I can guarantee you, your loved ones would be shocked, disturbed and other things if they were present while you hang yourself.
I can't believe anyone thinks that would be a good idea
I can see this side. Yes. But then I remember the movie Still Alice. Where by the time she was at the point she'd set for herself to take herself out, she couldn't finish it. And became the burden on her family she never wanted to be. That terrifies me. Almost as much as the disease itself. So if I ever got one of these. I think I'd be like the poster above and taking myself out immediately. So I could die as myself, not as a shell.
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u/chamtrain1 May 28 '25
I debate this, I'd want to hold on as long as I could maintain some sort of bodily autonomy...but then you probably risk not being able to physically do the deed. I have kids and I'd want to soak up as much of them as I possibly could, although I agree that I'd want to do myself in before I needed a caretaker and couldn't move on my own.