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TheRealBuddha 0 points 1 week ago
Fuck, I'd hate to be in that position. We need to fucking legalize euthanasia at a federal level. Hell, it needs to be a global thing.
If you're curious, I'm a proponent of such. We have a right to live according to our legislation, so the obverse should be equally true and we should have the right to die with dignity.
I also think that if this was legal and the social stigma eliminated, we'd see quite a few people taking the path of removing themselves from the gene pool. I'm perfectly okay with that.
I even have personal experience.
I had a sibling who was very ill. She couldn't even eat. She got her nutrition through a port in her neck and was 'fed' with a process known as 'TPM'. She had severe health issues in other areas, far too many to enumerate.
She eventually decided to sign a DNR to ensure no life-saving measures would be taken and stopped taking her TPM. Instead, she ate anything and everything she wanted. She lived for maybe 30 days before entering a coma and dying a few days later.
I very strongly support her actions. Her quality of life was just too low to keep living and there was no hope of that changing. Pretty much every moment she had was a moment of suffering.
It took a few days for me to really get my head around it - even though I'd openly supported her beforehand and during this process. At the end of the day, I never mourned for her death. Instead, I'm glad she's dead.
I mean, I wish she was still alive - but not with that quality of life. Fuck that... Sign me up for the bus. I'm not going to put up with that shit nearly as long as she did.
She's not the weakest person I've known. She's the opposite. She's the strongest person I've known.
I was already a proponent of euthanasia. I'm now an even bigger supporter. Nobody should have to live through that shit. If your life is shitty enough, you should have the ability to end it with dignity. We have the drugs to make sure it's painless and it is already legal in some areas.
I think it's a basic human right - or it should be.
Fuck the religious folks who make this difficult. Fuck them all. If there's a kind and understanding omnipotent deity, he's going to be perfectly okay with people choosing to end their life in a painless and dignified manner.
Then again, if there were a kind and understanding omnipotent deity, they'd probably not allow such shitty things to happen to people.
Err...
This is a long and rambling post but I'm obviously not a religious person. (No, Buddhism is not really a religion, though some folks treat it as such.)