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November 25, 2013 at 12:37 PM
I think a lot of people avoid talking about long-term care planning because they don’t want to get into a fight with more tender-hearted people about aggressive “end of life management.”
Of course, some people are completely, utterly morally opposed to giving up on any practical effort to extend life, let alone to active efforts to end life.
Many more people are alarmed by the idea that you could tick off your loved ones, and that your no-longer-so-loving relatives could use unwanted “assisted suicide” as a way to bump you off.
But I think there are many people who view suicide as the most practical strategy for dealing with disability at the end of life.
It hit me Saturday as I was watching “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” that one practical problem with that strategy is that most people have friends, or relatives, or friends and relatives who like them and want them to live.
I don’t want to spoil the movie, but one character in both the first movie, “The Hunger Games,” and the new sequel needs long-term care because of a mental and nervous disorder.
