One of my ffriends in her eighties is currently breaking the law as she has a banned american book on euthanasia. I dont know anyone who has worked in elderly care who wants to go into it. The saddest bit I think, is without the information they need, people can cock it up and end up worse. The body is just a shell. My father had a few strokes that left him - like a person trapped in an empty falling down house silently staring out of the windows with no hope of escape nor of recovering even the ability to find words. I know they were all in his head along with other stuff, with the man he was - but he could not vocalise. He was PTS at the end, but not when he had asked to be helped. I think the decision has to be yours, like when you look at an old dog sometimes - you just know they have had enough of fighting a battle they can not hope to win - they want to go - usualy.
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