<story><title>I&apos;m choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.</title><url>https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/783254242052206592</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anexprogrammer</author><text>The only way to win is not to play. I&amp;#x27;m past 50. I&amp;#x27;m not overly fussed about dying, it&amp;#x27;s not like it&amp;#x27;s avoidable. I&amp;#x27;m not overly fussed about how either as I&amp;#x27;ll get what I&amp;#x27;m given. Of course I&amp;#x27;d prefer a pain-free exit rather than a 2 year painful decline to incoherent as my father had. Unless you go in your sleep I suspect all routes have pain as the final memory. I have no fear of any of it.&lt;p&gt;The only thing actually on my radar is being aware I have limited time, and am past half-way.&lt;p&gt;For those who die slowly, or lose faculties, the process seems unfair. For those who have a sudden exit the event seems unfair and can leave much unresolved and unsaid.&lt;p&gt;Euthanasia, to me, seems to be the least worst option if I should ever find myself facing a drawn out exit. I get a bit frustrated those professing relgion like to play the &amp;quot;you must not&amp;quot; card. It&amp;#x27;s not their business unless I share their belief, which I don&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;So I&amp;#x27;ll get the exit the universe decides. One day I&amp;#x27;ll be part of a star.</text></item><item><author>arkades</author><text>&amp;gt; hard to fear it more than any other thing that can kill me - a stroke, a car accident, etc.&lt;p&gt;Hm. I wonder your age. Young folk seem to think death impossibly foreign, and fear it &amp;#x2F; ignore it all equally. Older folk, that have had more first-hand experience with the decline of the flesh in themselves and those they grew up with, have more an appreciation for the difference between an abrupt death in a car accident, and a slow dissolution like cancer. Quite a lot of people fear dying more than they do death.</text></item><item><author>fsloth</author><text>We all die at some point. While I too abhor cancer I find hard to fear it more than any other thing that can kill me - a stroke, a car accident, etc. The universe is out to get us - we&amp;#x27;ve evolved into tough bastard but we&amp;#x27;ve not defeated mortality.</text></item><item><author>LeanderK</author><text>This keeps me up at night. I hope the collective advancement in science makes it possible to defeat cancer some day. I believe&amp;#x2F;hope that my contribution as a insignificant CS-student helps somebody develop tools that help somebody researching etc.&lt;p&gt;I am really convinced that every advancement is connected somehow and the collective improvement in efficiency and livings standards makes it possible to commit more resources and train even more students to work on hard problems.&lt;p&gt;Even the work on something unrelated like React might somehow help if you observe humanity as a whole.&lt;p&gt;Also f*ck cancer (i read the guidelines and i found no statue against insulting cancer, if there is a user named cancer its a misunderstanding and you should really consider changing your username)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FireBeyond</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a geek, and a paramedic.&lt;p&gt;I entirely agree - prolonged suffering is not life, it&amp;#x27;s misery. That decision should belong to people going through this, and not anyone else (they can discuss with those they feel appropriate).&lt;p&gt;One of the most memorable transports I ever did was for a woman with terminal metastatic cancer, taking her home where her husband had set up a bed in the living room so she could watch the sunrise.&lt;p&gt;To understand the amount of pain she was in - the movement of the ambulance driving her home about 20 miles exacerbated her pain such that her morphine dose which was already at 450mg&amp;#x2F;day was pushed to 600mg&amp;#x2F;day.&lt;p&gt;For comparison, if you&amp;#x27;re a 200lb person with a broken bone, you will likely get 15mg.&lt;p&gt;I have seen the prolonged suffering patients, and their families. Whatever happens, it&amp;#x27;s not easy.</text></comment>
<story><title>I&apos;m choosing euthanasia etd 1pm. I have no last words.</title><url>https://twitter.com/hintjens/status/783254242052206592</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anexprogrammer</author><text>The only way to win is not to play. I&amp;#x27;m past 50. I&amp;#x27;m not overly fussed about dying, it&amp;#x27;s not like it&amp;#x27;s avoidable. I&amp;#x27;m not overly fussed about how either as I&amp;#x27;ll get what I&amp;#x27;m given. Of course I&amp;#x27;d prefer a pain-free exit rather than a 2 year painful decline to incoherent as my father had. Unless you go in your sleep I suspect all routes have pain as the final memory. I have no fear of any of it.&lt;p&gt;The only thing actually on my radar is being aware I have limited time, and am past half-way.&lt;p&gt;For those who die slowly, or lose faculties, the process seems unfair. For those who have a sudden exit the event seems unfair and can leave much unresolved and unsaid.&lt;p&gt;Euthanasia, to me, seems to be the least worst option if I should ever find myself facing a drawn out exit. I get a bit frustrated those professing relgion like to play the &amp;quot;you must not&amp;quot; card. It&amp;#x27;s not their business unless I share their belief, which I don&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;So I&amp;#x27;ll get the exit the universe decides. One day I&amp;#x27;ll be part of a star.</text></item><item><author>arkades</author><text>&amp;gt; hard to fear it more than any other thing that can kill me - a stroke, a car accident, etc.&lt;p&gt;Hm. I wonder your age. Young folk seem to think death impossibly foreign, and fear it &amp;#x2F; ignore it all equally. Older folk, that have had more first-hand experience with the decline of the flesh in themselves and those they grew up with, have more an appreciation for the difference between an abrupt death in a car accident, and a slow dissolution like cancer. Quite a lot of people fear dying more than they do death.</text></item><item><author>fsloth</author><text>We all die at some point. While I too abhor cancer I find hard to fear it more than any other thing that can kill me - a stroke, a car accident, etc. The universe is out to get us - we&amp;#x27;ve evolved into tough bastard but we&amp;#x27;ve not defeated mortality.</text></item><item><author>LeanderK</author><text>This keeps me up at night. I hope the collective advancement in science makes it possible to defeat cancer some day. I believe&amp;#x2F;hope that my contribution as a insignificant CS-student helps somebody develop tools that help somebody researching etc.&lt;p&gt;I am really convinced that every advancement is connected somehow and the collective improvement in efficiency and livings standards makes it possible to commit more resources and train even more students to work on hard problems.&lt;p&gt;Even the work on something unrelated like React might somehow help if you observe humanity as a whole.&lt;p&gt;Also f*ck cancer (i read the guidelines and i found no statue against insulting cancer, if there is a user named cancer its a misunderstanding and you should really consider changing your username)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frostymarvelous</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s not their business unless I share their belief, which I don&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;And even if you do share it, it&amp;#x27;s not.</text></comment>