• @idiomaddict@feddit.de
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        196 months ago

        This man’s wife specifically asked him not to, because he also tried to kill her last year. I was expecting to have more sympathy for the man, but then I read the story. His kid brought him in to confess, which is an unbelievable position to put your kid in.

        I do understand putting someone out of their misery, and I’m not unempathetic towards the grinding horror that is capitalism, but this is an awful thing for other reasons as well.

        • @JigglySackles@lemmy.world
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          56 months ago

          That’s not really a thing in most of the US. Best you can generally get is a “Do Not Resuscitate” order which is used in the event you die on your own and tells them not to do CPR or use an AED or anything else to revive you.

    • @taanegl@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Bro… I just listed the reasons… like if you don’t want to understand human nature, human psychology, sociology or why systemic issues are apart of creating the conditions that would allow this to happen, then that’s your dumbass problem.

      Like seriously. Read a fucking book - and not the Abrahamic ones. Those rot your brain.

    • My wife and I have discussed a few. For her, anything that’s terminal or results in such a significant decrease in quality of life that continued living is some degree of torture more than 50% of the time.

      My criteria are mostly the same, with added conditions for dementia, which seems to run in the family.