A moral/legal question...

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Let's say you have a grandpa, and he's closing in on 100 years old.

His life is deteriorating.

He can no longer take care of himself and needs help around the clock.

He is still of sound mind.

He asks you to get him a gun...so he can...end it.

What do you do?
 
Let's say you have a grandpa, and he's closing in on 100 years old.

His life is deteriorating.

He can no longer take care of himself and needs help around the clock.

He is still of sound mind.

He asks you to get him a gun...so he can...end it.

What do you do?

There are other ways.
 
You get him a pain management Doctor. He will be in some kind of pain if he isn't already. You and your Grandfather explain to him that under NO circumstances as your grandfather gets worse is he to feel much pain. If the Med's get too much and his body organs shut down well, both you and Grandfather accept that earlier than natural event.
 
I'd try to help the figure out better options than a gunshot to the head. I do believe in a person't right to die.
 
Nobody wants to see a person forced to end a life like that. The perfect world would offer other humane solutions.

This is not a perfect world.

My father told me that it was hell getting old. I did not fully understand his words until after I watched him die.
 
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I'd suggest other ways that are more effective. Every person has the right to die.
 
Let's say you have a grandpa, and he's closing in on 100 years old.

His life is deteriorating.

He can no longer take care of himself and needs help around the clock.

He is still of sound mind.

He asks you to get him a gun...so he can...end it.

What do you do?

I tell him to buy his own damn gun ... but for a bigger piece of the pie (my lot in the will) I'll drive him to the gun store. He's 100 years old, he can decide for himself.
 
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Let's say you have a grandpa, and he's closing in on 100 years old.

His life is deteriorating.

He can no longer take care of himself and needs help around the clock.

He is still of sound mind.

He asks you to get him a gun...so he can...end it.

What do you do?

eh, i wouldn't
 
I figure that anybody that talks like that is probably depressed, and I would deal with that issue first, just to be sure.
 
Discuss ways to improve his life, pain meds, living situation, etc.
 
Man you don't want to give a hundred year old man a gun. His hands are probably shaking so much, he'd miss and shoot you.
 
My father told me that it was hell getting old. I did not fully understand his words until after I watched him die.

Been there. My dad's comment was along the lines of: "Getting old is not for the faint of heart."
 
killing yourself with a gun isn't as easily done as you might think. you flinch just a bit and you end up severely crippled. best to get him some morphine or something like that and maybe even something to prevent him from puking it up.

but that's just theory. in reality, i would not have the stomach for it. thankfully, he never asked.
 
I'd try to help the figure out better options than a gunshot to the head. I do believe in a person't right to die.

Yep. If nothing else a bullet to the head leaves a sad mess for the ones still alive to deal with.
 
I would try to help, and I would do everything possible to minimize his pain, but I couldn't assist with suicide.
 
Been there. My dad's comment was along the lines of: "Getting old is not for the faint of heart."

As my Dad was dying, I whispered to him that it was alright to go. I told him we would watch out for mom and take care of her.

I will never forget watching him pass.
 
killing yourself with a gun isn't as easily done as you might think. you flinch just a bit and you end up severely crippled. best to get him some morphine or something like that and maybe even something to prevent him from puking it up.

but that's just theory. in reality, i would not have the stomach for it. thankfully, he never asked.

My mother asked when she still able to and I said that I would help her when she got bad. I truly thought that I could. Cancer is a cunt, as you well know. I couldn't do it because she was out of her mind and it didn't feel right.
 
Yep. If nothing else a bullet to the head leaves a sad mess for the ones still alive to deal with.

Been there...cleaned up that! (Shudders) and the smell. Twenty eight years and I can still vividly remember the smell and picking up brain and bone fragments.

NO...no bullets to the head.:(
 
My mother asked when she still able to and I said that I would help her when she got bad. I truly thought that I could. Cancer is a cunt, as you well know. I couldn't do it because she was out of her mind and it didn't feel right.

indeed. all my dad wanted was to go back to his bed. sadly, we did not let him because it was very hard to move him in his bed. if i'd known then what i know now i would have.
 
indeed. all my dad wanted was to go back to his bed. sadly, we did not let him because it was very hard to move him in his bed. if i'd known then what i know now i would have.

Watching and living through it makes you a different person after. Not necessarily better or worse but just different.
 
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