The staggering, exhausting, invisible costs of caring for America’s elderly

Re:The staggering, exhausting, invisible costs of caring for... by lotsofpulp on Thursday August 26, 2021 @07:42PM (#28322467)

I want my kids to enjoy their time on earth rather than spend them caring for me, especially if it means chronic round the clock care. I hope I can muster the courage to take myself out (and we advance on assisted suicide) by then.

Your version of enjoying life is not an inevitability, and taking care of elders day and night will not inevitably lead to the opposite either.

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Re:The staggering, exhausting, invisible costs of caring for... by specialist on Thursday August 26, 2021 @10:19PM (#28323627)

Yup. It's my generation's turn to perform eldercare.

I will not become a burden.

I will die in my own bed.

I will not allow predators to suck out all my assets.

So I've been researching suicide kit options. And everyone has explicit instructions to smother me once I can no longer take care of myself. (Or hookers and blow. Or race car over a cliff. Whatever works.)

Yaya, I could land in facility against my will. I get it.

My parent's generation was kept alive, long past their times, because of ambiguities. I'm being explicit.

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Re:The staggering, exhausting, invisible costs of caring for... by DanBC on Saturday August 28, 2021 @05:42PM (#28341775)

If this is really how you feel at least do it properly and legally and get whatever your jurisdiction calls an advance directive set up.

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Re:The staggering, exhausting, invisible costs of caring for... by gravstar on Friday August 27, 2021 @10:39AM (#28328395)

Proactive. Explicit. Responsible. This is the way.

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