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silent_jay · 07-19-2008, 11:44 AM

About 13 years ago I watched as my aunt died from Lou Gehrig's disease, she went from being happy and able to move around to bed ridden and unable to eat or talk in under 2 months, it was the hardest thing I've ever watched happen in my life. She could do nothing for herself, the disease ate away at her muscles, her brain, everything, I watched her suffer and get pumped full of morphine just so they could make her comfortable in her last weeks and days on earth, it was no way for anyone to live, I felt terrible for her, and still do knowing that the last days of her life were filled with pain.

Ever since then I've always said that should I be afflicted with such a disease I will take my own life, regardless of laws, or the way society looks at these sort of things, I couldn't put my family through watching something like that.

As for being put in an old age home, if I can't do things for myself, I don't see much point in living.

07-19-2008, 11:44 AM	#27 (permalink)
silent_jay Her Jay Location: Ontario for now....	About 13 years ago I watched as my aunt died from Lou Gehrig's disease, she went from being happy and able to move around to bed ridden and unable to eat or talk in under 2 months, it was the hardest thing I've ever watched happen in my life. She could do nothing for herself, the disease ate away at her muscles, her brain, everything, I watched her suffer and get pumped full of morphine just so they could make her comfortable in her last weeks and days on earth, it was no way for anyone to live, I felt terrible for her, and still do knowing that the last days of her life were filled with pain. Ever since then I've always said that should I be afflicted with such a disease I will take my own life, regardless of laws, or the way society looks at these sort of things, I couldn't put my family through watching something like that. As for being put in an old age home, if I can't do things for myself, I don't see much point in living. __________________ Absence makes the heart grow fonder Last edited by silent_jay; 07-19-2008 at 11:48 AM..