Why don't more people do vsed?

[windingdown]

VSED (Voluntary Stopping of Eating & Drinking) is a guaranteed way of dying. It is drawn out, but I should think it's not frightening like most other methods. And very old people do it. Why don't more people do it?

I don't because I live with my mom, and she would section me before anything happened (I have a psychiatric illness so that is relatively easy for her to do). But I'm curious about other people.

 

[C11H18N2O3]

VSED is a guaranteed way of dying. It is drawn out, but I should think it's not frightening like most other methods. And very old people do it. Why don't more people do it?

I don't because I live with my mom, and she would section me before anything happened (I have a psychiatric illness so that is relatively easy for her to do). But I'm curious about other people.

VSED is a long way of dying. Besides you need people to care for you as well.

 

[windingdown]

VSED is a long way of dying. Besides you need people to care for you as well.

It's true that it's long, and it does take resolve (from what I've read), but at least it is guaranteed. No risk of disability or chronic pain. And I think it is better to have others to care for you, but it's not essential. You can get eye drops and so on and self-administer, to make yourself more comfortable.

 

[Over n' Out]

That was known as The Liverpool Care Pathway. Only problem was the nurses forgot the V part.

 

[windingdown]

That was known as The Liverpool Pathway. Only problem was the nurses forgot the V part.

Oh, that's dreadful. The V part is rather important!

 

[nuclearsnake]

I've thought about it but I'm afraid of it being too painful and pussying out last minute.

 

[Volatile]

Having an empty stomach is an awful feeling

 

[nuclearsnake]

Having an empty stomach is an awful feeling

I've went through some periods of starving myself and it gets a bit better after a few days. Still difficult though. Even more so when your blood sugar drops and you start feeling dizzy and weak.

 

[Caustic Cardinals]

Growing up i was hungry a lot of the time, we didn't have much food in the house . often times school lunch was all I got to eat many days.
when I was 16 and homeless I remember being in such pain from lack of food I'd eat just about anything to make it stop hurting.

 

[TAW122]

I personally don't want my suicide to be drawn out over a long period of time because I am mindfully suicidal and I want to follow through as soon as I make the decision (even after much deliberation and consideration as well as exhausting all other alternatives). Also, to me, VSED is a last resort method, meaning that I don't have any real active action nor control (other than just abstaining from eating or drinking) over my death. Many other methods require an active action to attempt (hanging, firearms, OD'ing, etc.)

 

[akosineenee]

That was known as The Liverpool Care Pathway. Only problem was the nurses forgot the V part.

I'm reading about LCP now. From Wikipedia, "Now discredited, the LCP was widely abused as a 'tick box exercise', with patients being casually assessed as terminal, heavily sedated, and denied water so the diagnosis became self-fulfilling. Hospitals were also provided cash incentives to achieve targets for the number of patients dying on the LCP." How can anybody allowed this to happen? Smh at how passive our society is.

 

[akosineenee]

Growing up i was hungry a lot of the time, we didn't have much food in the house . often times school lunch was all I got to eat many days.
when I was 16 and homeless I remember being in such pain from lack of food I'd eat just about anything to make it stop hurting.

I relate so much to this. Most people don't get the desperation that accompanies starvation. You feel helpless and degraded. Less than human.

 

[Volatile]

I've went through some periods of starving myself and it gets a bit better after a few days. Still difficult though. Even more so when your blood sugar drops and you start feeling dizzy and weak.

What's the difference between the drop in blood sugar and hypoglycemia?

 

[Caustic Cardinals]

I relate so much to this. Most people don't get the desperation that accompanies starvation. You feel helpless and degraded. Less than human.

and if you go too long the brain will make you eat all kinds of thing you'd never consider as nutrients

 

[bigj75]

nooooooo! If you're old sure. But at your age you'll just suffer and risk organ damage.

 

[Caustic Cardinals]

nooooooo! If you're old sure. But at your age you'll just suffer and risk organ damage.

PAIN!!!

 

[bigj75]

quick and easy is the way to go.