All joking aside, this is a serious question for just about anyone. Few people give it a lot of thought. To me there is a difference between living and existing. When I can no longer care for myself, I'm not doing the nursing home thing. Clean and quick is the exit strategy I prefer. I will leave that long death march to others.
Same here. I see old people struggling to do basic shit and all I can think is why keep going?
Yeah dementia is the worse case scenario because you may not have enough faculties to eat the bullet. Shit was much less complicated when you died plowing the field in your early 40's.
man everytime i see a "shotgun plan" i think of that metalhead that was on the phone, got bad customer service or something, then pulled the shotgun on and blew his head off while the cats slow sauntered in, while livestream.
Its almost impossible with a shotgun due to length. Unless you get creative and shit and lets be real, getting creative should not be a factor when contemplating something this...permanent. Shockwave would need about a 18" - 20" reach which should be doable for a normal sized male. And the only reason I choose the gauge over a pistol is in this instance you want to cut the odds of survival to 0.00%.
One of the reasons my parents and I are living together now that they have retired. I won't see them put into a nursing home while I am alive.
Nah, I am not homicidal. Given a choice I prefer my end of days to be on my own terms and not just wasting away in a home someplace not able to enjoy any quality of life. That is really the key. Once one's existence has been reduced to breathing because its autonomic and not much else, I dont consider it living. I also have a DNR in place. I wont spend my end days tied to a machine.
It is. The FX show Nip/Tuck did a fairly good episode about the subject if I recall. Its been a while.
But aren't you the perfect MMO player at that point?
What you've said is obviously reasonable so dont take this the wrong way. I just want to explore this "breathing and not much else" part.
All valid points. My issue is with when I am no longer able to physically care for myself. I understand our bodies were designed with a shelf-life. That being said I have met people close to a hundred years old who can still get about and tend for themselves. I will go to 200 as long as I can care for myself. What I am addressing is when/if I am broken to the point of being bed-ridden and unable to perform any real functions (eating, going potty etc) unassisted with no prospect of the condition improving. I don't want to ever get to that point.
