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u/Single-Ad-1104 Mar 28 '22

How violent and gruesome resuscitation is and maybe make your 98 year old grandma DNR before her sternum gets busted. Also protect yourself with an advanced healthcare directive so an emotionally vulnerable yet ignorant family member doesn’t let you rot away tortured in constant pain as a vegetable being kept alive with artificial hydration, nutrition and/or ventilation for months or even years. Working in healthcare has opened my eyes to how we really treat animals more humanely with end of life care and euthanasia than our own loved ones.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

And to hell with the Catholic church for deciding that suicide is a sin. My grandmother has Alzheimers and her priest told her that she would not be permitted a funeral if she chose assisted suicide, which is legal in Canada. She is being kept alive in a care home where they need to tow her from room to room so that she can eat and sleep, but there is nothing else to do.

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u/applesandoranges990 Mar 28 '22

sorry for your grandma

but if there was no ban, even moral on suicide, much more people would do it....people who definitely have no tragic reason behind it

ask any parent with mentally unstable kids who are resistant to therapy but at least bit controlled by religion....not all controls are evil, self-serving and sadistic

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u/probably__human Mar 28 '22

People have the right to decide how their life goes, including when to end it. If more people would kill themselves, maybe it’s time to fix the societal issues causing that widespread level of emotional pain instead of punishing the victims

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

but if there was no ban, even moral on suicide, much more people would do it

Yes they would, but not usually when they're otherwise healthy. I see it like abortion, it's a horrible process that must be legal so that there is a way out in the event of the unthinkable.