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End of Life Issues

Binkie The Clown

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6. I agree

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #5)

Tue Jun 30, 2020, 05:56 PM

Jun 2020

I'm 75 and thought I was in good health until I just found out I only have about 50% chance of making it to 80. There's no way I would allow myself to be hooked up to "life saving" machines. At my age it would not be "saving a life", but only "postponing a death". And even at only 75 I've still racked up more years than my father ever had the chance to do when he passed 30 years ago.

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Good articles. I doubt I'd try to fight pancreatic cancer. And I might move to Hoyt Jun 2020 #1

My mother died of pancreatic cancer and refused to even take pain killers. Frustratedlady Jun 2020 #2

There is far too much of "heroic measures" taken, PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2020 #3

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Your story is all too typical. PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2020 #5

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Right. It is incumbent upon each of us to PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2020 #7