So since I was last here in SW, I got a new MRI
Proof that my incurable and untreatable illness has progressed.
What do you all think about euthanasia in my circumstance?
What do you all think about euthanasia in my circumstance?
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Notsimilar · 31-35, F
What is your quality of life? Are you in constant pain? Is it unbearable? Even mentally? Those are things I'd base such a decision on. If it's all bad and you're miserable and it's only getting worse, I think it's a reasonable decision. But don't make the decision suddenly, think about for some time, and know that it's okay to change your mind at the last second. Good luck to you. I hope you are doing okay all things considered.
@Notsimilar This kind of decision comes after decades of pain.
FlowersNButterflies · 61-69, FVIP
@Notsimilar [JWalker] I was diagnosed 16 years ago. Statistically, we are demented by 65 (2 years), unable to walk, bedridden and unable to make choices, at the total mercy or the vagaries of the human race, unable to talk, make our needs known. No quality of life.
Nursing home stories are horrifying. My mom with the illness was put in a nursing home at 65, they tied her hands to the wheelchair because she kept pulling out her feeding tube. She was not even allowed to scratch her own nose. Her story gets worse. She died there after 2 years, she had undiagnosed, and therefore untreated lung cancer which they discovered through x-ray when they dropped her, she died 3 days later. She cried daily, they said it was her dementia. She suffered horribly.
Her sister was in a nursing home and begged her son to kill her, he could not. She died there at 57. Her son had a major stroke at 44, died in a nursing home ten years later. My sister is 15 months older than I am and had been in a nursing home for 6 years already. Brother has it, lost everything. Nephew has it. Violent.
There are things worse than death.
My husband will be 74 soon, and has been on Aricept for Alzheimer's for two years already. Never had kids, never wanted them, and they would have had a 50/50 chance of inheriting the condition.
Nursing home stories are horrifying. My mom with the illness was put in a nursing home at 65, they tied her hands to the wheelchair because she kept pulling out her feeding tube. She was not even allowed to scratch her own nose. Her story gets worse. She died there after 2 years, she had undiagnosed, and therefore untreated lung cancer which they discovered through x-ray when they dropped her, she died 3 days later. She cried daily, they said it was her dementia. She suffered horribly.
Her sister was in a nursing home and begged her son to kill her, he could not. She died there at 57. Her son had a major stroke at 44, died in a nursing home ten years later. My sister is 15 months older than I am and had been in a nursing home for 6 years already. Brother has it, lost everything. Nephew has it. Violent.
There are things worse than death.
My husband will be 74 soon, and has been on Aricept for Alzheimer's for two years already. Never had kids, never wanted them, and they would have had a 50/50 chance of inheriting the condition.
FlowersNButterflies · 61-69, FVIP
@Notsimilar Exactly so.
FlowersNButterflies · 61-69, FVIP
@Notsimilar Much mental anguish, know the risks and the lack of good future.
Notsimilar · 31-35, F
@FlowersNButterflies hugs 🌻💐
FlowersNButterflies · 61-69, FVIP
@Notsimilar Thank you. I adore kindness!