Re:Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws
by yardstick on Friday August 19, 2022 @11:52PM
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To be fair, these people are not most people. All have a LOT of money to throw at their health. Also at carers, cooks, healthy living, and all the modern conveniences that make old age bearable. Same with William Shatner, he’s 91 now!
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Re:Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws
by scarface74 on Saturday August 20, 2022 @12:01AM
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My parents are 78 and 80. Old age is slowly catching up with them. But my dad can still stay out in the yard for hours at the time and until Covid, my mom was still tutoring friends kids and grandkids in advanced math. She is still completely comfortable with driving from my hometown 5 hours to where I live - a place with some of the worse traffic in America. They were not “rich”. My mom is a retired school teacher and my dad is a retired factory worker. They retired at 55 and 57.
My dad still keeps active and he practices karate katas multiple times per week.
Re:Experts troubled by Canada’s euthanasia laws
by 9530jh9054ven on Saturday August 20, 2022 @02:31AM
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Maybe but it seems like your parents have their health and were taking care of themselves.
I'm in my thirties. I'm already suffering from obesity, have chronic pains in the wrists and shoulders and leg, and my hearing and vision are starting to deteriorate, and I've had multiple bouts with gout that leaves me barely able to walk for months at a time.
If my thirty's are already this bad, I can't imagine lies in store in my 40's, never mind 80's.