Assisted Dying

[watervole]

 Pleased to say that MP (Vikki Slade, Liberal) voted in favour of the bill, as she'd promised when I wrote to her about it.

 

(Our previous MP, Conservative, - but not necessarily representative of the rest of the party - did not always vote to match what his letters implied.)

 

My heath is fine at present (expect when I get sciatica or break something), but I'm terrified of dementia (the bill doesn't cover that, but hopefully it may one day extend to it, such that if wishes are expressed in a proper power of Attorney while a person is still of sound mind).

 

I wrote my POA several years ago, and made my wishes clear.  If I ever can't recognise my family, then that person is no longer a person I wish to be.  And I certainly don't want my family to live with that kind of pain or to spend their time caring (or paying for care for) someone who can't appreciate it.

I want my money to go to my grandchildren and not on end of life care for me.

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[watervole]

Strictly speaking, it wasn't dementia, it was delirium caused by a resistant infection.

I know exactly what you mean about wanting to remember the person someone really was.

Exact repetition - that's so scary.

I hope that if I am ever like that, that my grandchildren do not visit. And that no one pressures them into visiting, in the belief that I would want it...

I am forever grateful that my beloved mother-in-law died quickly (a week) in hospital, and was coherent and intelligent to the last.

She was very practical, asked us to pay the upholsterer for the fabric he'd bought to cover a chair she would now never use.

[kerravonsen]

(hugs)

[watervole]

Thanks. I still miss her. Much of my love of gardening comes from her.