“I’m not sure that I want to suffer for years to “strengthen the character of a helping society” which is really just bankruptcy for my family and then being handed over to the tender mercies of Medicaid.”
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Exactly. If I choose to die, it is because I love my family. I have many health issues now at 71, and have already started divesting my assets to family. The problem is, judges can look at divestment over your last 10 years, and allow creditors to lay claim to them if they feel you are divesting to avoid medical creditors.
I lost 2 toes three years ago, and now I am rapidly losing eyesight because of clotting retinal tissue.
I will probably be blind in 2 years in at least one eye.
I can’t even fathom putting the burden on my family to take care of me in that way.
I have never feared death, but what I fear most is my family sacrificing THEIR lives to give me a couple years more of someone wiping my ass and leading me around up and down stairs.
I still work, and maybe will finish out this year, but I’ll be damned if I become a burden on my family and friends. They don’t deserve that.
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That’s how I feel.