Thank you.
Thank you. I hope my family forgives me.
BleedingHeart - I shared this with someone a few days ago, who was having the same feelings you have. I
is just my thinking, I want to share it with you, as I would do anything to reduce your anxiety about others.
I have thought a lot about "those we leave behind" and I now think that members of this forum are emotionally deep people who care, whether they want to or not, for others. I often thought the same thoughts. However, I have come around to think of things this way. Sure, people left behind us may be sad. or at least we hope they are for our own sake, but in the end, two things will happen.
First, we will be no longer suffering, at eternal peace, which is what we live for if you will pardon the expression. Second, those left will have a life somehow, and we should all hope that if their circumstances ever become unbearable to them, that maybe times will have evolved by that time to allow people to choose their own destiny, to live or die, without judgment or ridicule and all people can determine their own life outcome. We want them to understand that life is not fair, it just is life, and if it is unsufferable, it just is.
All that to say, many of us burden ourselves with how it will be for those still living, and it is not a burden we must no longer carry. Maybe if we think that they can someday determine their own choices, they will respect our choices.
The bottom line is we are the ones living our life, no one else can live it for us 24 hours a day, so self-determination, whatever it is, it is.
Others will eventually reach the point where we hope they will look back at our lives, and the end of our lives and think, at least they (we) are free of pain and suffering, and I now understand how they felt and respect that and they led me to now understand THEIR choice. And I love that they no longer suffer, and have shown me (the still living) that EVERYONE must be pro-choice in all respects, and I respect them.
Bottom line.