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The not so good death

In 2019, my 59 year old mother passed away from her third bout of cancer in her spine. She had been diagnosed with breast cancer a few years before that and then brain cancer, and finally succumbed to spinal cancer. It was honestly the most difficult thing to watch your loved one struggle along for two weeks. Thinking is she finally dead!? And then her breathing would kick back in. It has been the most emotionally and mentally scarring thing to go through. This went on for a week. We sat at my mums bedside for 31 hours straight waiting…
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Dignitas here I come

Watching my mother die of Parkinson's Disease Dementia, I want euthenasia for dementia - for euthenasia to be much more freely available. I'm heading to Dignitas if I get dementia, and I have two medical conditions both with an increased likelihood of dementia. I've also studied and got HDs in dementia care at uni, theoretically that should have made me positive about dementia - only made me more convinced that euthenasia is infinitely preferable. While the government is sacrificing healthcare for submarines, ... Until the government is prepared to spend big bucks on our atrocious public health system, the dying…

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