“Are you terminally ill?”
Yes.
“You’ve had all kinds of strong opinions about people in pain and/or facing terminal illness. You also say that BB and are not qualified to have any worthwhile opinions about people with chronic illness or pain or terminal illness.”
Your feigned ignorance in support of whatever your point is, is tiresome. In spite of my prior statement to the contrary, I’ll try once more (only). I did NOT say you or your buddy can’t have any OPINIONS about pain or terminal illness. However, in no way do you express yourself in the sense of having an opinion, only as a pompous know-it-all whose opinions are facts. You can blow smoke up your own behind as much as you want to and convince yourself that you’ve got it all dialed in, but you ain’t gonna know till you’re looking down the barrel - I don’t care who you know or what you’ve seen, you’re not gonna know till it’s YOU. Until then, all you’ve got is an OPINION. And why you or your pal consider it any of your damn business whether I or anyone else would at some point solicit medical assistance to end their life is beyond me. Life is too short, and shame on me for wasting this much time in this pointless endeavor. I’m done with you.
I’m sorry you are experiencing physical suffering.
I’m also sorry that you are experiencing so much anger that you cannot see anything beyond your own mind. You are reading me and BB wrong, making unfounded assumptions about our points of view as well as what we each may be going through right now or in the past.
Hospice care helps terminally ill people find relief from pain without having to kill themselves.
Your rudeness and anger make it impossible to have a rational discussion, and I am sorry for you.
Every one of us will be (or may be right now) dealing with terminal illness, unless we die of a sudden heart attack, stroke or other ailment, or get in a fatal accident. Death of the temporary earthly body is something everyone faces, you are not the only one. Those with terminal illness are not the only ones with a valid viewpoint.
And since you can type, you can certainly find ways and means to commit suicide*, without the intervention of Big Gov and turning the medical profession into executioners.
*I am not advocating that you do this. I hope that you make peace with your condition and can face the end of your physical body with peace in your heart, and I also hope that you understand or come to know that your real identity is an eternal soul, and that “death” is not the end of one’s existence.
Oh enough of the histrionics. Quit pretending you know what other people have experienced. You clearly don’t know squat. You pretend that you’re dying, but not fast enough. If you’re serious about wanting to commit suicide, to avoid a natural death, go ahead. You don’t need the government to rubber stamp it for you. You don’t need to corrupt our health care system. Just swallow your bullet, poison, or truck bumper, as the case may be, and leave the civilized people out of it.
I am really sorry you had to put up with the bullshit from some freepers here who don’t understand what it is like to be faced with a terminal illness. You did the right thing to just stop responding.
I had a cancer situation two years ago with 5 miserable months of treatment. It was a no-brainer to me that if the treatment didn’t work out for me, I was not going to cause my family to endure a long, drawn-out hospice/morphine haze/diaper situation.
No one can understand a decision like that unless they have looked it in the eye. Until they do, it is all just philosophy and imagination.
Best of luck to you, FRiend.