I have decided I will not fade away with ALS, if I get it, and I won’t be anybody’s burden. It’s my decision to make, nobody elses.
Include Alzheimer’s and MS (which I have) in my post.
I guess I should have read further down the thread before replying.
At the beginning of your life, you were helpless, and a burden to everyone, yet you didn’t feel ashamed of it. Babies feel pretty good about themselves, and well they should. As someone who has loved and cared for a dying person, I feel grateful that she and our family had a chance to transition gradually. The people you do not want to be a burden to may, in the big picture, consider it an honor and a blessing to be able to love you and care for you.
Judge not that ye be not judged. Matthew 7:1
As the father of someone who chose to take her own life I am dealing with the after-effects of her decision. Do I wish she had made a different choice? Only every waking moment of every single day. Do I think she took the “easy way out”? No, but I do believe that the choice was slightly less horrible to her than the demons that tortured her. Do I think less of her or believe she died without dignity. Absolutely not.
Is it my place to judge her, you, or the ones who would look down their noses at you? No, it isn’t my place.
You know that actions have consequences, and that those consequences often manifest themselves in unanticipated ways. Choose wisely and go with God.
I hope you intend not to take the medical profession down with you.