Article on aging and suicide

[nurplexkid]

'My body is unserviceable and well past its sell-by date': the last days of Avril Henry

"People with a terminal illness are the lucky ones," Avril said. "I have longed for a diagnosis of cancer."

It's a long article but well worth reading. An elderly woman in her 80s, whose body was failing, choose to die by N but not before the police kicked her door down and took what they thought was her only supply. This article really captures the horror of aging and the injustice of preventing people from going when they're ready.

 

[BlankUser]

Lucky and smart lady!
When the pandemic started I was reading an article about some old people who hoped to get Covid and die from it. It just shows how necessary assisted suicide is. It would reduce so much suffering.

 

[WornOutLife]

Damn! Aging sucks so badly!
I'm deffo getting the hell out of this planet before my 40s.
I have some years to enjoy life but I wonder, will I be able to really do it?

 

[FuneralCry]

A right to die really is needed, it is our own body, we should get to decide when to go. That woman had a perfectly rational desire to die, the body can literally be a prison. I dread the thought of getting older, physically and mentally decaying.

 

[Grave]

I'm deffo getting the hell out of this planet before my 40s.

Yeah, I told this to my therapist that even if I wasn't going to ctb soon, I'd definitely do it before I was 40, and he was just like "oh well, I'd quite been looking forward to my 40th birthday". Honestly some people are just built differently, I'm not made for this life, maybe he is.

 

[motel rooms]

and he was just like "oh well, I'd quite been looking forward to my 40th birthday"

No human being, sane or insane, has ever said that & meant it

 

[Bullit]

Did she use SN?

 

[All Things Must Pass]

Damn, being old sounds so miserable. I don't know why anyone wants it. ACAB.

 

[nurplexkid]

Did she use SN?

No. She used N which is illegal.

 

[Hattywacky]

Amazing woman and read. A truly rationed suicide. I wonder if a doctor would have been so convinced If she hadn't of been old. We are all slowly decaying, is it rational to take your life a week? A year? Two years? before a natural death?
I envy that she got to forewarn her loved ones, to relieve potential distress.

 

[Hurt]

I hate the idea of aging. Even when I read it I have instant ctb thoughts.
To live pissing on myself and with the drool falling from my mouth I prefer to die. If I'm suicidal now that I'm young imagine when I'm older with all those health issues. No, no.

 

[Hattywacky]

I hate the idea of aging. Even when I read it I have instant ctb thoughts.
To live pissing on myself and with the drool falling from my mouth I prefer to die. If I'm suicidal now that I'm young imagine when I'm older with all those health issues. No, no.

It's the loss of the things our society's have decided to value, independence, beauty etc you'd think we'd value things that don't disappear with old age seeing as it's coming to everybody.

 

[lofticries]

This is why ppl who say they wanna live to be100 are the weirdest of all. A guy lived that much and more and finally said that's enough bullshit, let me die.

 

[Efilismislife]

The title is kind of misleading cause he doesnt look healthy/in good condition, bony and limping, etc

Look at his shirt "ageing disgracefully"

Age isnt just a number. Its ageing that matters too. They couldnt be happy because their body is deteriorating and life and social life go down the hill

Even people who are young is unhappy if their body and life become like that

This is why ppl who say they wanna live to be100 are the weirdest of all. A guy lived that much and more and finally said that's enough bullshit, let me die.

 

[Wrennie]

I'm already afflicted with various medical ailments despite my youth. It is my primary reason for CTB. The thought of getting older and my conditions worsening/being exacerbated fills me with dread. I wasn't designed to live a long life. I want to end it now, before the physical and psychological suffering become truly unbearable. I hate that they'd just dismiss me as crazy or irrational for doing so because their bodies are freaking healthy & they've never had to experience an inkling of what I've had to endure.

 

[Efilismislife]

Yeah same i realize i never thought about being in old age too Like i couldnt even see it.

Funny thing is when people scold me to think about how im gonna handle my life in old age i said "who said im gonna leave till that long?" And theyre just speechless

Its weird but sometimes im surprised of realizing that.

But my life is like on pause though due to health issues, etc

I'm already afflicted with various medical ailments despite my youth. It is my primary reason for CTB. The thought of getting older and my conditions worsening/being exacerbated fills me with dread. I wasn't designed to live a long life. I want to end it now, before the physical and psychological suffering become truly unbearable. I hate that they'd just dismiss me as crazy or irrational for doing so because their bodies are freaking healthy & they've never had to experience an inkling of what I've had to endure.