Legally Available Medically Assisted Suicide

legislation is being proposed in NY which is modeled after Oregon. I am not going to review the legislation in Oregon and California right now, but do they preclude those patients who have gone through the process to have the meds approved - taking the meds where ever they want to? I mean in your scenario you would leave it to family or strangers to retrieve your body - might be kinder to others to die in bed. with regards to leaving your body to science - many teaching hospitals have anatomical gift programs. The one here at Albany Medical Center is so popular, they are given more than their students can handle and so they share the cadavers with other institutions. After the body has been used for study - it is cremated and every year the medical college holds a ceremony to which friends and family of the deceased are invited and at which the medical students speak about their person, to whom they have, through out their studies referred to by name - about how much that person, by their gift, taught them. It is very moving. However, I was surprised to learn that my mom was in NYC for 2 years being studied by physical therapy students. I am sure that she would have simply found that very funny.

I would like the option of assisted dying and I should probably get around to applying for the anatomical gift program.

I would think the life insurance company would. Suicide exclusions are generally limited to two years from issuance through privately purchased policies. Since life insurance through an employer is generally annual renewable term some of those policies would probably always have a suicide exclusion in place.

When I was first DXd, I looked up if you could kill yourself with xanax or codeine-laced advil (the answer is no). I was hoping I could stash enough to kill myself if I felt the need.

Now that some time has passed, I am not sure I would do it. Suicide is suicide and it leaves pain behind. Bad karma basically. It is something I find difficult. There are clinics in Switzerland that will do euthanasia. An acquaintance did that when he felt he had enough. I completely respect and support the choice, just not sure I would do it.

I told my girls once that when they start whispering behind closed doors that I will book a trip to Indonesia and take a little hike on the Island of Komodo. . . it can't be suicide if I get eaten by a Komodo Dragon can it? And no one will ever forget the dear little lady that got eaten by a Komodo Dragon. . .

Pipers, , and so very funny. Thoughts like that cross my mind from time to time, but getting eaten by dragons is the best one yet! They can fight over us, lol.

cb123, thanks for starting this thread. I recently was dx with innumerable liver mets. Just 3 months ago, I took care of my BF of 44 years who died of liver mets. She had a ultrasound, died 20 days later. Was not dx with the primary source, it came out of nowhere.

I wished there were more options for assisted suicide or euthanasia. The state I live in will most likely be the last to even consider this issue. I would like to skip thoses last 2-3 weeks of my body shutting down. Thinking of my DH & 2 adult kids, they have seen me suffer enough. But, I am no quitter. Just had my 2nd Taxatere for this new dx. I will hang in there with treatment, until it is obviously no longer working.

Morally, I have no problems with this. I respect everyone's personal choice.

Pipers, thanks for the belly laugh.

cb123, I have never heard of the Ted cocktail. I will google this. I am glad the mods did not delete this topic.

Thanks Hopeful....

And I just have to add, Sylvia Plath may have been the most depressing figure on earth. Good grief, that woman had issues. I can't find one single reason to admire her....for anything. That's just me though.

Ksusan, hi! I recognize your name from that other thread we were discussing stuff on. I don't know you at all, but I am really, really hoping you don't think infidelity is a reason to shove one's head in the oven. I just can't identify with someone that weak. Perhaps all I know about her is one-sided half truths....entirely possible, because the only stuff of hers I've read is what I was forced to in school, poetry in grade school, that Bell Jar thingy and her biography in university. I still laugh about it when I think back to the prof who forced it upon me. We had words