If you had bad health issues would you go on? - Page 2

serenity4ever · ‎11-04-2013

I wouldn't want to leave my kids the legacy of a mother who committed suicide. So I go on and will continue to do everything possible to stay on this planet as long as I can. I feel like I owe it to my family to try and be as healthy as possible even when all of it seems like it is too much sometimes..... So I do understand, Shorty, how there are times when it can be very frustrating but like yourself I would never want my family to suffer ..

That is not to say that I condemn anyone who takes their own life. It is a very personal decision up to the individual.

loveschocolate · ‎05-11-2012

Years and years ago, we had a neighbor down the street from us a few houses. I had just came home from work and saw him on his front walk with a gun in his hand. He shot himself in the head. I learned later he had some sort of health problems.

Puzzle Piece · ‎06-29-2010

Hard to say.

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bikerbabe · ‎03-09-2010

There is a difference between deciding on palliative care to minimize pain for someone who is at the point of hospice vs actively taking your life.

Taking my life is wrong and selfish. I do not believe it is my decision to make. JMO.

AuntG · ‎03-09-2010

A few years ago, a couple in a subdivision not too far away that did that. Turns out they were good friends of a lady I worked with and they often played cards with the couple. The explanation was that they were childless and her health with declining. He knew he wouldn't be able to care for her much longer so he shot her (it appeared to be from behind so I doubt she was aware of his plan), and he then wrote a note to his nephew and took his own life.

WSfan · ‎03-09-2010

On 3/9/2014 happy housewife said: i worke in ICU for 42 years and saw many sad situations. often when a person's prognosis is bad and the doctors know they are in terrible pain the doctors will ask the family to allow us to withdraw care and let them die. often there will be one family member who is against it and because of that it will not be done. The patient will continue to suffer. i think every person has a right to figure out for themselves as much as possible how and where they would like to die. hopefully, then they will have a designated SO who will see - within the law - that their wishes are fullfilled.

So well put. I feel in situations such as you described, the one hold out needs to place themselves in the patient's shoes, so to speak. Would they want to continue living in the condition that patient is in? My parents had that discussion with my sister and I, and put their wishes in a living will. We had to make the difficult decision to let our dad go when the time came; no guilt, no regrets. My husband and I have done the same with our children and also have a living will, so they know exactly what we want done. Life is not easy, and sometimes difficult but necessary decisions have to be made.

NoelSeven · ‎03-09-2010

It's been common here for quite awhile that hospice people will tell their patients the correct dose of morphine and the dose that would kill them. Some people take advantage of that knowledge and decide to spare everyone, themselves included, a difficult and long lingering death.

I can certainly understand that.

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Love my grandkids · ‎11-24-2013

If I had something incurable I think I'd just refuse treatment after seeing what my late DH went through.

And I know I couldn't take my own life, I couldn't do that to my son, my DIL and my grandchildren. Just couldn't leave them with that.

wildcherry · ‎03-09-2010

I'd have to be pretty bad off, so I could not say for sure. Suicide? I don't know.

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

It's not at all cowardly, as one poster implied. Granted, it's not for everybody and I fully appreciate that fact. But for some, it IS the brave thing to do. Killing yourself is not an easy thing to do. For most, it takes a lot of thought and consideration. Sometimes a person gets to the point that, for the first time in their life, they have to think of themselves instead of always thinking of everybody else. It takes a lot to come to that point, so it's not taken lightly.

Again, I'm not trying to say that this is the answer for everybody. But it is a very legitimate answer for SOME.