http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2007/04/07/way-some-of-us-die-is-shameful/ Weblog of Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society & author of Final Exit, serving the rights of competent, terminally ill adults for 30 years Sun, 13 May 2012 19:50:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://assisted-dying.org/blog/2007/04/07/way-some-of-us-die-is-shameful/comment-page-1/#comment-10228 apeacefulpassing2025 Thu, 17 May 2007 23:44:34 +0000 http://assistedsuicide.org/blog/2007/04/07/way-some-of-us-die-is-shameful/#comment-10228 Excellent article. It is so ridiculous for any of us to sit here and wait to die a prolonged agonizing death in a nursing home where many are certain not only to die a physical death or cancerous, but also to be abused by evil staff members who despise the elderly and the weak. Many of these homes are simply antiseptic concentration camps to destroy the spirit of those who are helpless. That is why I'd rather die as soon and as peacefully as possible. Nursing homes are prisons to punish those for being old. The ethics do not apply in these facilities. Excellent article. It is so ridiculous for any of us to sit here and wait to die a prolonged agonizing death in a nursing home where many are certain not only to die a physical death or cancerous, but also to be abused by evil staff members who despise the elderly and the weak. Many of these homes are simply antiseptic concentration camps to destroy the spirit of those who are helpless. That is why I’d rather die as soon and as peacefully as possible. Nursing homes are prisons to punish those for being old. The ethics do not apply in these facilities.

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