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I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.

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Re: I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.

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Post by edelans »

giis wrote: post #63

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The "Think of the Children" is worth pasting it here :

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Re: I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.

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Post by paulcole »

arkades wrote: post #51
fsloth wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We all die at some point. While I too abhor cancer I find hard to fear it more than any other thing that can kill me - a stroke, a car accident, etc. The universe is out to get us - we've evolved into tough bastard but we've not defeated mortality.

> hard to fear it more than any other thing that can kill me - a stroke, a car accident, etc. Hm. I wonder your age. Young folk seem to think death impossibly foreign, and fear it / ignore it all equally. Older folk, that have had more first-hand experience with the decline of the flesh in themselves and those they grew up with, have more an appreciation for the difference between an abrupt death in a car accident, a…

Arent abrupt deaths more likely to happen to a young person? Shouldn't a young person then not fear cancer (less likely) any more than accidental death?

I wonder your age. Old folk tend to assume they have some sort of wisdom and that they can't possibly be wrong simply because of extra years spent on Earth.

Re: I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.

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Post by evanb »

igravious wrote: post #35
OnACoffeeBreak wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a recent The Moth: Radio Hour [1] where an emergency room physician talked about dealing with death in the ER. I was struck by the deliberate decision to be blunt about what had happened. She specifically says that she cannot mince words and say that the patient "departed" or "moved on" because inevitably the concerned family and friends will assume that their loved one has been moved to another hospital or…

They made this a serial joke on Arrested Development if you remember. Starting with the doctor saying, "We lost your father" and the whole family goes into shock and mourning. The doctor continues, "We can't find him anywhere, we have no idea where he is" and the Bluth family go beserk at the lexical ineptitude of his communication.

"He's going to be all right."

"Oh, thank god!" "Finally, some good news from this guy!"

"That's a great attitude. I gotta tell you, if I were getting this news I don't know that I'd take it this well."

"But, you said he was alright?"

"Yes. He's lost his left hand, so he's going to be all right"

Re: I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.

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Post by drcross »

lettergram wrote: post #52
fsloth wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We all die at some point. While I too abhor cancer I find hard to fear it more than any other thing that can kill me - a stroke, a car accident, etc. The universe is out to get us - we've evolved into tough bastard but we've not defeated mortality.

*yet I am 100% confident that within the next two hundred years (baring some massive war, dark age, etc.) We will be able to use gene therapy to reduce cancer risk to negligible levels. We will probably even master the ability to program cells to do what we want... At which point all diseases where the body breaks down will likely be gone. That's not to say, we won't have issues regarding illness - just our bodies wo…

I agree with you and I hope you are right.

Re: I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.

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Post by chrisan »

bbarn wrote: post #58

Pardon my ignorance, as it's never been relevant to his work, but where does Pieter live? In the US there's a chance posting that would get the police to your door, sadly.

> In the US there's a chance posting that would get the police to your door

Has this happened?

Re: I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.

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Post by nkrisc »

emodendroket wrote: post #73
toxican wrote: post #44

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Cancer seems more scary to me than a stroke or a fatal car accident because you can try to prevent those things. Health choices can decrease chances of a stroke, being an alert/careful driver can decrease chance of an accident. Cancer though...I mean yeah you can avoid longterm sun exposure or not smoke, but there are so many out-there types of cancers that just swoop in out of nowhere that you don't stand a chance o…

When it comes to cars, nothing is stopping some yahoo not paying any attention from careening into you no matter how careful you are.

Of course not. The point is there are things one can actively do to decrease risk (though not eliminate it). With many types of cancer that isn't the case.

Re: I'm choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.

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Post by chris_wot »

shin_lao wrote: post #6
DanielBMarkham wrote: post #2

I find this post along with the comments unsettling, but I am unable to articulate why. (It is not the choice, nor the announcement of the choice. There is something about the dynamic here that doesn't sit right with me. Apologies for my failure to elaborate.) I wish him the best and deeply appreciate his sharing part of his journey.

Would it be the inevitability of death that disturbs you?

In my mind, death is a travesty. As someone who thinks about death (my own) when I'm incredibly stressed and upset, I know I can't carry out the act. But it's distressing and horrific, and it fucks with my mind. There is no other word violent or crude enough to describe it, so that's a very deliberate choice of phrasing I make.
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