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View submission: I don't care about old people dying
I think OP is rather young and didn't had an encounter with death by himself yet. It doesn't matter what happens, it's always the same with the survival instincts; once death knocks at your door, you'll do everything you can to survive. I almost died by an overdose once and in another time, i made it barely through a suicide attempt because of my bipolar disorder.
I can just tell you, it's always easy to say this like "when i'm old, i don't care if i'm going to die", but in reality, it will be different when you are really in this situation. Even when grandpa can not do many things anymore, he doesn't want to die. If he could, he'd rather be young again.
Also, many people say such things, like "When i'd get life in prison without possibility of parole, i'd commit suicide", but the stats show, that only a very few prisoners go through with this. Even those on death row almost always try to appeal and to get one more day, even when it is just in a small prison cell.
About euthanasia aka assisted suicide, we have this where i live in Switzerland. Still, the majority of the people don't go this way. I had a friend that did this because he had leukemia in terminal stage, he decided to skip the suffering and just go in peace and without pain and struggle. But not many people do this, most still try to fight on even when the battle is already lost.
There's nothing here!