Seems a bit messed up, doesn't it?

( Cawl, Thu 4 Jun 2009, 10:16, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Incredibly so
My uncle Klaus died last year from long term bowel cancer. By the time he died it had been in his bones for nearly six months and he was in agony every, single, day. He asked to be given an overdose of morpheine but no one would. So instead he spent his last months as a shell of his former self, unresponsive and not quite all there.

Stupid ethical laws. he could have been saved so much pain and indignity.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 4 Jun 2009, 10:20, Reply)

Yep
when my dad was in the hospital, he was lucid and painfree up until the last two days. He refused morphine, but the cancer had already metastasised to his brain, so we couldn't tell if he was in pain or not. The docs refused to give him pain relief on top of what he already had because he was refusing it, despite being delirious.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 4 Jun 2009, 10:20, Reply)

^these things suck
if I get into that condition I charge all of you, as I will my friends, to make sure I am so drugged up I can't feel a damn thing.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 4 Jun 2009, 10:26, Reply)

Yeah,
I'd want putting down if I got any of those diseases where your mind goes and you forget your loved ones.
You're not you anymore once that happens.
( Cawl, Thu 4 Jun 2009, 10:33, Reply)

Tell ya what...
let's put you both down now, and save there being any confusion later.
( thealternativefact, Thu 4 Jun 2009, 10:46, Reply)

No!
I'm happy, and I'm enjoying life :(
( Cawl, Thu 4 Jun 2009, 10:52, Reply)

QUICK! HE'S NOT MAKING SENSE!

( thealternativefact, Thu 4 Jun 2009, 10:54, Reply)

FINISH HIM

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 4 Jun 2009, 11:00, Reply)

FATALITY

(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Thu 4 Jun 2009, 11:08, Reply)

Me and my mates signed a pact agreeing to something similar
If any of us develop a disease where the mind goes, we've agreed to find a way to have them put down before they get too bad.

Of course, if we all catch this disease at the same time and lose our minds, then we're all fucked.
(Ghost Atreides enjoying incontestable health benefits on, Thu 4 Jun 2009, 10:55, Reply)