The Dread Slender Gnome on Nostr: I have thoughts about this whole thing. Conflicting ones. What's going on already ...
I have thoughts about this whole thing. Conflicting ones.
What's going on already regarding people being actively offered assisted suicide is really not good.
However, I am firmly of the opinion that I owe nobody my suffering, including the society at large. If at some point I end up with a painful or debilitating terminal disease, I would very much hope I wouldn't have to just settle with "palliative" care, which is essentially guaranteed to stop being effective at some point (seeing as it can't go beyond the point where it would threaten the patient's life, even if the alternative means the suffering gets worse).
I don't know how to resolve this conflict.
So I suppose at some point I will just have to find a way to acquire a sizeable stash of strong sedatives, or the equivalent. Just in case.
What's going on already regarding people being actively offered assisted suicide is really not good.
However, I am firmly of the opinion that I owe nobody my suffering, including the society at large. If at some point I end up with a painful or debilitating terminal disease, I would very much hope I wouldn't have to just settle with "palliative" care, which is essentially guaranteed to stop being effective at some point (seeing as it can't go beyond the point where it would threaten the patient's life, even if the alternative means the suffering gets worse).
I don't know how to resolve this conflict.
So I suppose at some point I will just have to find a way to acquire a sizeable stash of strong sedatives, or the equivalent. Just in case.