Reply #23: My grandfather, unable to sit or turn over in bed by himself, watched by nurses 24/7

[AlienGirl]

He spent four years like that. Four years of this former logger, avid woodsman, the man who built houses with his own arthritic hands, eventually too frail to lift a spoon to his mouth. He asked, repeatedly, for release. If he could, he said, he'd walk into the woods...but he couldn't sit, much less walk. He couldn't do it for himself, and so his world shrank to a broken body in a narrow bed without even a breeze from the pine forests he loved.

And what of the people who want to make sure they don't mess it up and end up shooting off their face or being hypoxic just long enough to incur permanent brain damage?

As a former social worker, I can tell you that not everyone wants to be forced to face situations "with courage" and many do not believe that enduring pain adds anything to their stature.

Tucker