VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Broga|DATE|1369162311|CONTENT|Dinah:  You are so accurate. We looked after my very aged mother till she died and the last few months were hell.   And my mother was suffering so much she wanted to die and every night hoped she would be gone before morning.   Only my wife enabled us to cope.  And that left both myself and my mum guilt ridden which what she was doing.  Forget about the romantic bullshit of caring for the old.

Melvin Bragg said not long ago that he would never endure an old age of dementia (his mother suffered from it) and legal or illegal he would find some way to finish his life.   I feel the same way.  I will never inflict on my children the stress and depression we endured and I feel nothing but rage at those religious bigots who lecture the rest of us about clinging to life.   When life is no longer worth living I want to be off.  I agree with Epicurus:  &quot;There is no need to fear death.   When life is here death is not.   When death is here, and we have no sensations, death is not.&quot;   

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