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buried_lede t1_jae1k5x wrote

Reply to comment by SKIPPY_IS_REAL in Connecticut lawmakers considering legislation to give terminally ill patients medical aid in dying by 76before84

Personally, I hate this. End of life pain relief is very good now and it would be few conditions that are so intolerable to my mind to justify it, and no matter what people say, it will be abused. I read stories where it already is in places that have initiated it — I think Canada? Can’t remember. How to navigate all of this is unknown to me. I don’t think abuse can be 100-percent prevented.

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Professional_Bird_74 t1_jae3msq wrote

Be prepared for downvotes. I totally agree with you. The elderly will be the ones most vulnerable. Pain management and hospice care has come a long way.

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buried_lede t1_jae6lxd wrote

I can imagine some conditions that might be excruciating for me: being quadriplegic AND very sick for a long time. Being in end stage Lou Gehrig for a seemingly interminable amount of time , totally paralyzed from a stroke with no rehab or activity and sick on top of that with cancer or something. Most of what I can imagine being terrifying for me are conditions that are very prolonged where I am both ill and helpless. But I don’t think this law should pass

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buried_lede t1_jae5qh6 wrote

Done well there are few conditions that can’t find comfort in dying. My mother passed peacefully of cancer with an opioid drip. I’ve had major, invasive surgery with no post op pain at all, none. I don’t think this will end well.

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