This article discusses the dilemma faced by people with dementia and Alzheimer's. - decide while you are able to make this decision, but then it means it's very likely too early to die - wait until your cognitive abilities have declined to the point the more able version of you would have wanted to die, but by then you can't make that decision anymore

It seems like a mostly solved problem, in the Netherlands and Canada at least, where people can make advanced decisions that waive the need for a final agreement at the moment of euthanasia itself.

I worked on health care admin tools for a bit, used in hospitals and nursing homes. I learnt there are lot of people super scared of death, even if they have been in and out of system for 20-30 years and barely functioning physically, they will still call the doc, go through 20 tests and ask for treatment options. And there are all kinds of opportunists and parasites within the healthcare system who will take advantage of it. One of the accountants would say its thanks to that crowd, the firm we worked at stayed afloat. I got out of there as quickly as I could. Humans are some weird ass creatures. Death is a feature. Not a bug.

You have consider that everybody is terminal and that they had a choice and that they didn't suffer. The best is to now to remember them for the good times. Sorry for your loss.

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If I went this way I would want the period between injection and unconscious to be longer so that I could ponder my last moments and greet death head-on. In fact I would like there to be no unconscious period, just a slow period of dying and then 'pop' I'm gone. I literally want to experience my death.

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When my parents go the absolute last thing I'll be doing is letting the media make their deaths about me to advance their agenda.

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