I'm getting older and I've watched alot of people die. Do you think it's better to live through the pain until hospice puts you down with morphine or oxy and you spend the last week unconscious with no food or water?
Make no mistake we have assisted suicide already but we make you take the pain first.
Well in my town they call the business "Mercy Medical". I think it may be technically referred to as "hospice Care" (I think you said it reading back). But dont quote me on that. I just recall my grand dad going in there on his last legs of prostate cancer and it was then that I realized its a place where they don't plan for you to come out, and they slowly dosed you with morphine more and more until you died. Its absolutely SLOW EUTHANIZATION just like putting a dog down. Just at a slower rate.
Dont get me wrong.
THERE IS A REAL CHICKEN OR EGG ARGUEMENT HERE. So back in the mid 90's when I first saw all this I could still ration that, hey a patient is in extreme pain as their body is being decimated by cancer, so how much opioid does it require to eliminate that pain, AND AT WHAT LEVEL CAN YOU REMAIN CONSCIOUS - OR ALIVE..
BUT THEY GAVE YOU THAT TIME which is part of a republic democratic freedom, as well as a luxury that should come with it and WE FOUGHT FOR.......
What concerns me even about this hospice care is that what will wind up happening is that they will expedite the process and once you enter the door they will ultimately pretty much be sending you on in 2 days flat. IS MY suspicion as to where this is all heading.
Another concern I have @Big_paul ... Is where the fuck have we wound up in all this opioid prohibition. How much pain are people having to go thru now. AND I KNOW ITS A LOT. I honestly suspect that I could be tore up with Cancer and they would not prescribe me an deserving pain killer such as morphone (Dilaudid) or hydromorphone (Opana) so that I could at least choose my own rate of how much I wanted to endure to ready myself for the afterlife...
I mean you can be in a fuckton of pain these days and barely get a script for hydrocodone even if you are already tolerant. Something is not right here. So it would appear that they want you to take so much pain so fast that they are moving toward SUMMARY EXECUTION.
I suspect Canada is just currently painting the future picture and of course by the powers that be. They are a tool of said....
I have positive thoughts and negative notions on all of this. Getting old DOES SUCK.. But if you look at MOTHER NATURE, GOD, ENTROPY, and MORTALITY. The most important notion that I have found is that longevity in mortality is based on two things. And I am not sure which one supersedes. GENETICS AND/OR PHYSCHOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE. What I am saying is that I have met so many people that simple get worn down, decide, or somehow determine that they are sick of the humdrum. The point where you just cant even stand another trip the the grocery store. You can actually watch them start to switch to death mode without even taken a negative substance to start dieing. And then you have to weight in the second part of the equation which is what is the role of your genetic propensity in all this. And genetics IS A BITCH.