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kooljerk666

(776 posts)
6. Being helpless & alone is a pretty big & scary future..............
Tue Jan 15, 2013, 07:30 AM
Jan 2013

I have some reason to worry. I have had a few dozen concussions & am will be prone to the kind of dementia football players get.

What worry's me is when things get bad enuff to quit, I will not know anything is wrong, it is easy enuff to go into Philly & get enuff pain killers to end it, but i will not know what or why or how or where am I?!

I would like to see a means where i could mandate now, that if/when I go senile, I get put to sleep. I do not want to waste money on diapers or make anyone deal with that kind of crap.

I am not a big PBS fan but here is an interesting story they did Nov 2012 on assisted suicides in the US.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/11/the-suicide-plan-frontline-explores-organized-world-of-assisted-suicide.html

Washington & Oregon are the only state where this is legal currently.

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