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View submission: I don't care about old people dying
I used to visit my great grandma when I was younger. One time when I visited she told me “I’m just waiting to die. I’m not sure I want to live anymore”.
I do think that sometimes families push careers into keeping elders alive past their own wishes. I have heard many nurses talk about how sometimes old people stop eating, but the family insists on putting in a feeding tube or force feeding them. It’s a difficult situation because you don’t want to tell the family that their loved ones “should” die, but you also know force feeding or feeding tubes hurts the patients and just makes their last days more miserable.
It’s common for both animals and people to stop eating to quietly sleep in. It’s a natural instinct.
Death is uncomfortable, but it is inevitable. Let people die naturally when their body and brain gives in. Don’t fight it. Let people die peacefully and comfortably instead of painfully keeping them alive for a week more.
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