I watched my parents go through end of life. One with Parkinson's and dementia the other with many different issues like bladder cancer. I think I will check out when the health issues kick in 80ish. It was a huge drain on the whole family and I do not want to do that. Thoughts?

good time to plug the advanced health directive:

www.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E/Advance-Health-Directives

Muppet said..

hilly said..
I watched my parents go through end of life. One with Parkinson's and dementia the other with many different issues like bladder cancer. I think I will check out when the health issues kick in 80ish. It was a huge drain on the whole family and I do not want to do that. Thoughts?

In your case, the sooner the better.

Hmmm

Absolutely live life and make the most of every day

My daughter has no more grandparents and especially after watching my mum suffer close to her end, I believe in euthanasia.
Apparently in past times, experienced medical staff would up the dose of morphine and you wouldn't wake up.
But when my mum who fought a good fight says it was time to go but they restrict the medication she had to continue and there are situations with no quality of life, an option of euthanasia is not suicide.

Yesterday I had to put our 16 year old family cat down as no quality of life and man enough to say I wore my sunglasses in the vets as it resurfaced emotions.

Here in NZ 2020 we voted and had a binding referendum on euthanasia. There are many clauses within, so kids aren't just going to knock off the parents to get inheritance.

From Wika ...
The act came into force on 7 November 2021, twelve months after the final vote count was announced. The End of Life Choice Act legalises voluntary euthanasia for those with a terminal illness and less than six months left to live, if confirmed to be eligible by two doctors. New Zealand is the first country to have put euthanasia legalisation to a referendum.

It's a deep subject and worth discussion.

Get outside and embrace the day

I'm not sure how euthanasia for people with a terminal illness and a prognosis of death is relevant to the proposition that started this discussion. I read it as suggesting that check out time was quite a bit earlier than the law allows.

Yes it's a difficult topic and fires up lots of emotions but I guess that if you reach a stage where you have no quality of life and no prospects of that changing then you should be able to end your life with dignity.