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A comment on Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking. Parent comment

Re:Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking by el_nahual on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:33PM (#34727696)
Call me callous but that's the point at which it's ok to die.

There is very little quality of life and very little sense in being alive in a hospice, surrounded by strangers, hooked up to machines, living a lonely existence.

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Re:Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking by wussboy on Thursday February 09, 2023 @01:14PM (#34728559)
The problem is that we don’t want to die. That instinct can be ruthless, even when it doesn’t make sense.
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Re:Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking by pessimizer on Thursday February 09, 2023 @01:21PM (#34728699)
Plenty of people want to die. The reason end-of-life care is extended as far as possible usually has little or nothing to do with the people themselves. They may rarely be lucid or even conscious.
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