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CopperCicada · M
The short answer: I support physician assisted suicide.
I’ll be very candid. In my late wife’s last months, she begged me to kill her. She suffered from a genetic metabolic disease, the management of which developed into an eating disorder. She also suffered from profound mental illness. Crushing agoraphobia, generalized anxiety, OCD.
One of my spiritual and philosophical confessions is non-violence. I could not kill her. I could not aid her by helping pushing her over the edge. I could only try to help her.
I tried to take the path of saving her. I tried to get her in patient care. She would not participate, and I could not Baker Act her. I set up an appointment with a new psychiatrist. She died alone in her sleep a few days before we made it to that appointment. I founder her dead in bed a few days after mutual friends visited (she rejected seeing them).
In retrospect, I wish she could have just been able to leave her life on her own terms. When she wanted. Not alone, but with me. With medical support for pain and anxiety. With psychosocial support for both of us. Instead she died while I was at work.
I’ll be very candid. In my late wife’s last months, she begged me to kill her. She suffered from a genetic metabolic disease, the management of which developed into an eating disorder. She also suffered from profound mental illness. Crushing agoraphobia, generalized anxiety, OCD.
One of my spiritual and philosophical confessions is non-violence. I could not kill her. I could not aid her by helping pushing her over the edge. I could only try to help her.
I tried to take the path of saving her. I tried to get her in patient care. She would not participate, and I could not Baker Act her. I set up an appointment with a new psychiatrist. She died alone in her sleep a few days before we made it to that appointment. I founder her dead in bed a few days after mutual friends visited (she rejected seeing them).
In retrospect, I wish she could have just been able to leave her life on her own terms. When she wanted. Not alone, but with me. With medical support for pain and anxiety. With psychosocial support for both of us. Instead she died while I was at work.
CopperCicada · M
@Pikachu Your question is more specific than my answer.
What would *I* do?
There is a fork in the road.
There is actively killing a person suffering. Pinching their nose an mouth shut, pushing meds, strangling, poisoning, or shooting them. And then there is withdrawing life support. Food, IV fluids, meds, treatments.
Saw the last two with both parents. I can live with that. Own it.
Actively killing— I don’t know.
I’m the worse hypocrite. There are plenty of things shy of terminal illness I want a Glock in the back of the head..l even though I’m not sure I could return the favor.
What would *I* do?
There is a fork in the road.
There is actively killing a person suffering. Pinching their nose an mouth shut, pushing meds, strangling, poisoning, or shooting them. And then there is withdrawing life support. Food, IV fluids, meds, treatments.
Saw the last two with both parents. I can live with that. Own it.
Actively killing— I don’t know.
I’m the worse hypocrite. There are plenty of things shy of terminal illness I want a Glock in the back of the head..l even though I’m not sure I could return the favor.
