Any adult should be allowed to do whatever the fuck they want with their own body.
100%. Everything bad that can happen because youre out your nut is already illegal, and most of the harm from drugs comes from the gang activity thanks to its illegality.
Next to no teenagers are out there stabbing eachother over loaves of bread
a famous one in france a lady was suffering a very rare cancer, the govt refused to give her life-ending drugs, so she got some from the streets, barbituates or whatever and just OD on it.
What a legend. 🫡
“What you gonna do? Put my dead body in jail?”
We are all suffering from a terminal condition, known as life.
So yeah drugs for everyone.
Ok I have an idea. I’m all for giving people the option of assisted suicide, but it’s just way too medical and boring! I want something with pizazz!
I have a better idea. The US government has been dying to get back into nuclear testing. I say, let’s kill two birds with one atomic bomb! We designate a site out in the Nevada desert somewhere. Then, once a year, anyone who qualifies for assisted suicide gathers there. You have all the regular safeguards existing assisted suicide processes have. Everyone there first says goodbye to their families. Then they walk through the gate, present their ticket, and take a bus to ground zero.
They arrive at dawn. Through the day they have access to every illegal drug one can imagine. Finally at the end of the day, at sundown, a great countdown is held. As the last light of their last day winks out, a second sunrise blooms across the desert. And everyone present goes out in the most epic way imaginable - high out of their minds and instantly vaporized under the light of a thousand suns.
Forget doing this in a hospital or hospice and being given some nasty poison to drink. I want to go out at ground zero of a nuclear explosion! Just put me close enough to the center so I actually get vaporized, not one of those unlucky ones that just gets their skin burned off and has to die painfully over several hours or days.
We’ll call it … burning… man ?
Cute. But my inner engineer and scientist needs to point out that at these temperatures, “burning” doesn’t really apply. At these heat fluxes, you don’t so much combust as simply stop being chemistry and start being physics.
That’s the appeal of it. It’s literally the most painless way possible to go out. Your brain has been turned to plasma before pain signals even have a chance to reach it.
A little on the nose, eh?
Ha, pretty good option. I wouldn’t get a ticket. But, seems reasonable.
I’ll be outside, in a recliner, fire pit going. My friends all around.
I’d sip some of this & that. Eat my favs. And have both music and “MASH” playing until I fade away.
If I know I’m gonna be dead soon, realistically, who’s gonna stop me?
This reminds me of a former, and actually current coworker. After she gave her notice my previous employer before leaving for my current one, she was freaking out about finishing up a win10 hardening project.
I asked her, “why are you so anxious about it? What are they going to do, fire you?”
What’s stopping you is unavailability of those drugs.
Well, for once, when my grandparents were terminally ill…they did not seem to be able to meet their dealer ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
People
with terminal illnesses/in their last daysshould be allowed to have any drugs they want.All Drugs should be Legalized.
For adults
Obvious, isn’t it?
It’s the Internet. You have to specify any and all caveats.
And turtles
I think you might be overestimating the capacity to enjoy anything at that point
Exactly why drugs should not be illegal at any time during life, instead of just at the end when some figment of our moral imagination would allow it out of pity.
People in this thread are romanticising end of life as frolicking happily at a party one moment and slipping away in a magical slumber the next.
Most likely you’d be in bed either crying fo pain meds or asleep after having been given pain meds.
I too would, from where i am now love the idea of my consciousness slipping away while tripping on dmt but i recognize that once the time comes i may not desire nor care anymore.
Yes, of course. Most people die from something. I think OP’s point stands though. Enough morphine puts you far away from the pain even if it doesn’t lessen it (I have used it that way for my very rare status migraines before the state disallowed it) and that does provide relief. When I get there, overdose sounds like the best of the set of bad choices available.
My drug of choice would be a massive amount of barbiturates
There’s also the option that whatever is killing them may take away their awareness to a degree. My grandfather died of lung cancer when my mother was a little girl but according to my older kith and kin he apparently was questionably lucid up until his final birthday where he was present for the day, he passed away a couple days later after slipping back into a comatose state.
There are definitely some drugs I’ve tried that I would not want to do while staring death in the face. But I agree it should be a personal choice. Basically I think it should be at any point in life.
any drugs they want.
How about any drugs they can afford, because that is sort of what we have now (speaking for the US).
How about any drugs they can afford, because that is sort of what we [don’t] have now
FTFY
Hospice has the good shit
i agree! i was terminal, uh, something like twenty years ago we should throw a party. some people get all of the luck. what i mean is, do i still get to cash in?
Yeah I snuck in Cigarettes to my grandmother in hospice. She wanted them, asked in between gasps for them. So I did. We wheeled her outside and let her smoke.
After that they didn’t let her back out until she died. I sort of understand but at the same time, what is she holding out for? Its over. They treat dying adults like children and I think that’s wrong.
Agreed, I can’t wait to load up on Adrenochrome when I’m a little older.
in Little Miss Sunshine, Alan Arkin plays a grandad who practices and preaches that heroin is only for the old.
