Rules to die your life by
Discussion
Obviously we would all like to check out in a blaze of glory on some coke and hookers vinegar stroke or asleep in our bed with some catastrophic event but it doesn't normally happen like that.
My rule is that I will die laying alone in my own grassy fields in the middle of summer, clear blue sky above birdsong all around. No pain because of being high on morphine, whisky and little oxygen in my blood, peace all around, a little like the film Soylent Green, but for real.
Chance of it happening, very little, most people die in winter, however a man has to have standards to die his life by (paraphrasing In Bruges)
My rule is that I will die laying alone in my own grassy fields in the middle of summer, clear blue sky above birdsong all around. No pain because of being high on morphine, whisky and little oxygen in my blood, peace all around, a little like the film Soylent Green, but for real.
Chance of it happening, very little, most people die in winter, however a man has to have standards to die his life by (paraphrasing In Bruges)
Takes some planning, but my will is very clear. DNR is stated. Where I live on Canada you can elect to have medically induced dying if you are terminal and I have that also defined. No long-drawn out departure and elaborate medical procedures for me. I will live quite happily as long as I am independent , but at some stage that ends for all of us.
Just leave everything tidy for the survivors.
Just leave everything tidy for the survivors.
tless, hoping that I'm immortal and won't have to deal with it.ChocolateFrog said:
If my family leave me to wither away in some godforsaken nursing home being abused by minimum wage staff I'll haunt them.
I think I'd go the assisted dying route if that ever looked like it was on the cards.
I have made it clear to my wife and remaining sons that is my wish.I think I'd go the assisted dying route if that ever looked like it was on the cards.
After watching the way my eldest died they have no problem with carrying out my wishes.
Death holds no fear for me but the way I might leave this world does trouble me deeply, hopefully in my sleep when no one is around.
Both grandparents currently in home (last few months) both being stripped of dignity as age (grandfather 93) and dementia (nan 88) ravage them. He has said he is fed up and wants it to be over. It breaks my heart seeing a once strong independent man falter like that.
In my sleep please or of sick then roll out the huge morphine overdose. Don't drag it out for no moral reason than to line the pockets of carehome owners
In my sleep please or of sick then roll out the huge morphine overdose. Don't drag it out for no moral reason than to line the pockets of carehome owners
I joke that I've had a bit of a practice at dying. A few years ago I woke up in intensive care a couple of days after being knocked unconscious in an accident. Death is OK - once it's happened everything previous to that point becomes irrelevant to the dead person. Including how you actually died. My answer to the question "What music would you like at your funeral?" is simply "I don't care as I wont be there."
My rule is simply to leave as little hassle as possible for my relations to sort out.
My rule is simply to leave as little hassle as possible for my relations to sort out.
I can only wish I go on my own terms, when I choose, and as hard as my dad did, the doctors told him to choose when to take the forced air mask off, they explained when he did it wouldn't take long, he shrugged his shoulders and gave me the thumbs up, he took mask off and closed his eyes with a grin on his face, that was 0900hrs, he finally left us at 0200hrs the following morning. Knowing my luck ill have a heart attack In the premier inn room toilet ffs
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