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View submission: How to be independent when I'm old?
Have a living will or advanced directive. This is so important. If you don’t have children to make these decisions for you? The default is to do everything. Let’s say you have a stroke and are unable to communicate and are obtunded with no brain function. If you have an advanced directive that says you don’t want to be connected to machines to be “alive” if you have no quality of life, then the doctors can take you off life support. Otherwise, you’ll be connected to machines, slowly wasting away, getting bed sores, and eventually an infection that kills you. It’s a bad way to go.
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