Story Some horror stories about being denied the right to die.

[All Things Must Pass]

A friend of mine passed away slowly and painfully by deliberate starvation, when her MS was in final stages and she lost even more control of her body. She wasted away for over two weeks. I don't know how she survived without water. Her whole family, all her friends, praying for a gentle passing for her. Before this, she had asked me to help her source helium for a method of suicide that wouldn't be connected to her family, and I did my best but couldn't get it for her. I failed her in this. She was the strongest person I knew, and she was vocal about how medically assisted death should be an option. And I wish that she could have had that option. Especially compared to what she endured at the end. (RIP, dear friend)

My dad had Parkinson's, I don't know if you've seen that shit eat away a humans ability to function. But 3 months before he actually died he had to sit in his own shit and piss in a geriatric unit of a state funded nursing home. We both wanted it over.. It was deplorable, I blame myself for letting his last days pass hallucinating, having fits of rage, not being able to speak or eat. People just stop eating when they want to kill themselves. Assisted suicide would have been much more humane than what happened. Had to share a room 20×15 with my family members and a guy (roommate 2 per room) who slept on top of his blankets with his pants full of shit. I was begging for it and my dad was begging for it, you know how much I inherited? Negative $312 I had to pay for the last day of my dad's life in that shithole..

My mother had a series of strokes that left her almost totally paralyzed other than her left hand. She had brain damage that meant she couldn't tell reality from dreams, so a nightmare would become real to her, leaving her terrorized for days. She was also blind and nearly totally deaf. She suffered like that for years, getting great care, being fed boiled dog food, crying and begging for it to end, until finally gangrene killed her, rotting her alive from the feet upwards. It's given me a terror of getting old and helpless. Please smother me with a pillow before I end up like that! If she had been a dog or a cat, we would have gone to prison for not putting her to sleep, but because she's human, she had to suffer, horribly, until they couldn't keep her alive any longer.

Prolifers are sadists.

 

[FuneralCry]

It is very cruel to deny the right to die. It should be a basic human right. It is awful knowing there is no limit as to how bad diseases can get and yet there is no peaceful escape. Society needs to show some compassion.

 

[Superdeterminist]

It's absolutely terrible. People who are opposed to euthanasia should read about these people to learn the consequences of keeping suicide forbidden.

 

[watereyes]

and here i am whining about life, without having any disease.

 

[BeyondGoodNEvil]

I hate the way the society always has the notion to keep everyone alive at all costs.At some point you have realize that going through the pain to live aint worth it.

 

[Seiba]

I recall an old post where a man had tried to hang himself and his mother kept him alive despite the issues failing caused. He was capable of learning to blink after months and every time asked if he still wanted to die he blinked yes. It was disturbing seeing the mothers smiling face juxtaposed against the son in the chair.

 

[Superdeterminist]

I recall an old post where a man had tried to hang himself and his mother kept him alive despite the issues failing caused. He was capable of learning to blink after months and every time asked if he still wanted to die he blinked yes. It was disturbing seeing the mothers smiling face juxtaposed against the son in the chair.

I remember that, what a nightmare. You have to wonder, did she not have even an ounce of conscience?

 

[Seiba]

I remember that, what a nightmare. You have to wonder, did she not have even an ounce of conscience?

Maybe in her own twisted way, but I'm not sure what'd be worse. Just a rare act of a person with little conscience keeping someone alive in that situation or someone who did have a conscience overriding it for the purpose of objectifying a son who was no longer truly alive.

 

[lofticries]

I'm always amazed that people get so creeped out about assisted suicide but dying a slow painful undignified death inside a hospital is so accepted.

People say that its unnatural but us living till 80s is also unnatural. People say they're playing god but nobody thinks that taking medicine or being operated on is also playing god. So many contradictions in this world.

 

[WaitingForTheBusInTh]

My country is supposed to be getting access to medically assisted death for mental illness in 2023. I keep seeing stories like this and the fact that I cant even get access to a psychiatrist short term makes me wonder why I'm even trying to wait until then. The chances they'll say yes to a 27 year old are slim to none.
I'll never be able to understand people who force others to stay alive when their quality of life has clearly gone. Its cruel beyond creulty

 

[WrongPlaceWrongTime]

It's disturbing that when it comes to euthanasia, humans are literally treated worse than animals.

 

[All Things Must Pass]

bump

 

[watereyes]

and here i am whining about life, without having any disease.

haha nevermind lizzie! im very sick now! i deserved it.

 

[Ankou]

My chronic condition isn't recognised as terminal but I'll likely die from it because I can no longer eat without being in agony. My country is catholic and the healthcare system rarely lets you refuse treatment

Fortunately it has been decided that I wont be force fed if I stop eating but I wont be given any painkillers other than paracetamol in case it kills me before starvation does

I'm considered lucky because no one will stop me from dying even though it will be painful because of this bullshit war on suicide

 

[supermario]

Omg those stories just show that there is no depths to human suffering. Where is Dignitas and Pegasos for people like this? This is why affordable, State backed assisted suicide must be discussed. The right to die peacefully is a fundamental human right.