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Just things I wonder about ... and some people are nice enough to answer. You are welcome to answer, too ... just click on "Comments" and off you go! IF you don't want to be Anonymous, use the Name/URL option and just put in your name ... no URL required .... Starting Jan 28th, 2009, I am using questions from "Table Topics: Right or Wrong?"
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Hopefully, I have all the legal documents which will take me off any life support...but if I need assistance, I see no horror in it. I would rather do that than have my loved ones give up their lives to care for me. I fancy myself sitting on the porch in a rocking chair with my cronies making fun of the people that pass.
((((and you are special, Pam!))))
Before I posted this I wrote a diatribe of how I wanted to burden my kids, but I won't. If I have to, I'll go quietly, but I agree with Pammy. I want to go in my sleep, so that no one will be bothered. The kids know my wishes, and that's all that counts.
My legal documents also say to take me off of life support ... but there really isn't any mention of what should happen if I become too much of a burden on family ...
So ... I should probably get in writing somewhere that I would like to go to assisted living or a nursing home if my mental or physical issues become too difficult for my loved ones to handle.
NOW ... and I want witnesses for this ... that does NOT give TOM the right to have me committed tomorrow ...
I'll probably pass on before any of this becomes an issue ... but one thing I know for sure ... I will NOT make Tom and/or Robbie PROMISE not to put me in a nursing home ... if I need one, I need one ...
I plan on going out in a blaze of glory, and taking as many of you with me as possible.
(Isn't that what those idiotic people who strap explosives to themselves say?).
As long as I am not a burden to anyone mentally and can get around OK, I will live where I am most comfortable. If I am a senile oldster, put me in a home and come visit me occasionally.
Define burden? My mother's mother, was a burden/blessing. She lived with us during my high school years, but could still do something's for herself and was an independent sole. My father's mother had many of the same health issues, but was a different personality, very dependant, thus we could not do anything to please her and she went to the nursing home.
For me, I hope that I am more like my mother's mother and can enrich peoples lives in my advanced years. (Like Gumdrop does in this blog daily) But if I loose my mental and/or physical abilities, lock me up and feed me jell-o!
If I am a burden send me to the proper facility to take care of me be it a nursing home or an assisted living center. And my definition of burden is where I would affect there quality of life in some way.
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I really hope that's what my kids will do. I'd really rather live in a nursing home than hav to live with my kids. I don't want to invade their privacy and certainly don't want to be a burden on them. (ok, if I'm just nuts and physically ok, I might want to live with each of them for a little while just to drive them batty too, but only for a while. haha)
I do want them to put me up in a really nice home though and expect to be waited on hand and foot! LOL
Interesting question. I don't think anyone wishes to be a burden unless they are really spiteful. I would prefer to live with my family till the end like my mother and grandmother did, but if someone determines that I need to go into a home, then they damn well better have a good chef and big huge model railroad!
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