You have my sympathy for going through that on several occasions.
I know,much as I might wish it,I could never cause the death of another person.
I sometimes jokingly remark to my daughter,born when I was 40,that I’m planning on living just long enough to be a burden to her.She usually replies that she’ll be ready with a pillow over the face and that there’s no time like the present.
The reality is that I would never ask her to do that for me,I think it’s too much to ask of anyone however extreme the circumstances.
Perhaps unfairly, but provoked by your jokey remark to your daughter, but may I ask you how you would feel if the roles were reversed. If you were in a similar position as my father was, physically destroyed, but with enough mental faculties to understand the circumstances, to feel the pain and worst of all to be impotent in the sense of being unable to take any action, would you not want your life to be taken away at that point? And if so can you understand that for some of us it is the only way.
Please don’t answer if I am trespassing on your privacy, which I respect.
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