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Aoeletta t1_iz09fg6 wrote

Reply to comment by VuurniacSquarewave in How Death Can Help Us Live: a philosophical approach to the problem of death by simsquatched

As someone who watched far too many people slowly die when I was much younger than that lesson is usually learned…,

Agreed. Completely agreed.

I am not afraid of being dead. I am afraid of the painful journey that concludes in death. I am terrified of a painful death. I have seen “passed in their sleep”.

None of it is as smooth and painless as we pretend. I am convinced that we don’t show what death actually looks like because we couldn’t function if everyone truly saw it at a young age.

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VuurniacSquarewave t1_iz0nwq7 wrote

I am an avid euthanasia supporter since that experience, it would be so easy to go like I've been put under that I would instantly take that option over slowly withering away in a random other way.

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Aoeletta t1_iz0o4ql wrote

Absolutely.

I hope by the time I need to consider it, it is a legal option.

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TheNotSoGreatPumpkin t1_iz21ytl wrote

I’ve directed my wife to euthanize me in the case of increasing dementia. It can get to a point where you’re incapable of even making an informed decision about it.

I watched my grandmother become un-personed over the course of a decade, and there’s no way I’d ever put myself or anyone else through such a heartbreaking hell.

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candykissnips t1_iz3spyr wrote

Lol, like people haven’t been killing themselves for millennia??? humans can jump off high things and die near instantly without euthanasia….

I don’t ever want to live in a society that promotes or welcomes, in any way, suicide….

That troubles me at least.

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VuurniacSquarewave t1_iz49qa7 wrote

You will still feel the dread as you are falling. If it isn't perfect you will still have a few final moments at impact.

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TheNotSoGreatPumpkin t1_iz1ddiw wrote

The hiding of death is a relatively new social phenomenon. For most of human history we lived in tribal extended families, where everyone was exposed to everything all the time.

I’d surmise the recent sanitization of the dying process in the developed world has contributed greatly to a general increase of neuroticism surrounding it.

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stupidwebsite22 t1_iz19oeg wrote

Even the whole thing of drugging the dying people with morphine takes a long time (I’ve seen this happening with cancer patients and super old people where it’s basically assisted dying).

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