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> I would like the option to die painlessly before I end up needing a robot to change my diaper.

My dad has Parkinson's and needs a human to change his diaper. If he had the option of a robot, I bet he'd take it. Not a painless die now option, though. As I write, where he is it's 8 o'clock in the morning and he's watching an old Larry David and eating an ice cream cone while my mom gets ready for them to go to breakfast.



That’s the idea of an option. Great if it works for him, but having spent a lot of time with Pieter Hintjens (of AMQP and ZeroMQ fame) before he chose the time of his own passing from recurrent cancer, the notion that this is not allowed in order to appease religious zealots is simply barbaric.


I'm not sure you replied to the right post, but religious zealots don't watch Larry David.


Indeed: but the kind of people that prevent individuals from having the option to die as and when they see fit tend to be.




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