Who By Very Slow Decay - Article about the last 10 - 15 years in nursing homes and hospice

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Who By Very Slow Decay

[Trigger warning: Death, pain, suffering, sadness] I. Some people, having completed the traditional forms of empty speculation – “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, &#8220…

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I think we are the lucky ones in a lot of ways in that we won't have to go through this. Some even very painful methods, I think are better than dying in some of the ways described in the article. If you've ever been in some (US) medicaid/ medicare funded nursing homes, it's a nightmare the state some of the people are in. We live in a very cruel society that we force severely disabled people, that are in pain, with no agency, to keep living whether they want to or not. Most people don't think about it much until they are in that position and by then it's too late for them to do anything about it, and they are forced to live in a nightmarish state for another 10-15 years.

How Doctors Die | The Saturday Evening Post

What’s unusual about medical professionals is not how much treatment they get when faced with a terminal illness—but how little.

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Another good article is How Doctors Die

What's unusual about medical professionals is not how much treatment they get when faced with a terminal illness—but how little.

 

[EmbraceOfTheVoid]

"The term 'deinstitutionalization' conceals some simple truths, namely, that old, unwanted persons, formerly housed in state hospitals, are now housed in nursing homes; that young, unwanted persons, formerly also housed in state hospitals, are now housed in prisons or parapsychiatric facilities; and that both groups of inmates are systematically drugged with psychiatric medications."
― Thomas Stephen Szasz, Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted

 

[SoIntoYou]

Many Euthanasia arguments are common sense. Do you guys think that one of the reasons these people are kept alive is because people are making money off of them?

 

[EmbraceOfTheVoid]

Many Euthanasia arguments are common sense. Do you guys think that one of the reasons these people are kept alive is because people are making money off of them?

If society admitted as a whole that suicide/euthanasia is a rational choice then they'd also be admitting that psychiatry is a pseudoscience that subjects people to cruelty and torture for profit. So, yes.

"The pressure to reduce health care costs is aimed only at the treatment of real diseases. There is no pressure to reduce the costs of treating fictitious diseases. On the contrary, there is pressure to define ever more types of undesirable behaviors as mental disorders or addictions and to spend ever more tax dollars on developing new psychiatric diagnoses and facilities for storing and treating the victims of such diseases, whose members now include alcoholics, drug abusers, smokers, overeaters, self-starvers, gamblers, etc." ― Thomas Stephen Szasz, Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted

 

[FreddieQuell]

I love the 'How doctors die' article - very insightful. How the ones that know what's coming for them choose quality of life over prolonging it in suffering.

 

[Shakespear's Brother]

If you've ever been in some (US) medicaid/ medicare funded nursing homes, it's a nightmare the state some of the people are in. We live in a very cruel society that we force severely disabled people, that are in pain, with no agency, to keep living whether they want to or not. Most people don't think about it much until they are in that position and by then it's too late for them to do anything about it, and they are forced to live in a nightmarish state for another 10-15 years.

A life forced to be lived without dignity is perhaps the cruelest imposition of our society.