A button for the over 90's

[Andy in Germany]

That genie is long out of the bottle. If you wanted to end yourself with medication, drug or even outright poison the wold is already your medicine cabinet.

Indeed, but having a guaranteed easy method is a much greater security risk, not least to people who don't know what they are taking.

I'm told there's a system where you can sign a piece of paper in some jurisdictions, witnessed by lawyers, to say that under certain conditions that's what you want, so later if you have dementia or similar the procedure will be followed if the conditions are met.

 

[Punkawallah]

In their 90s 😳

What Have 90 year old milk-maids ever done to you?

 

[Drago]

Indeed, but having a guaranteed easy method is a much greater security risk, not least to people who don't know what they are taking.

It's already guaranteed and easy if that's your bag. What was previously fairly specialised knowledge is now freely available on the Internet. If that is what someone fancies its pretty much guaranteed.

As aforementioned, the genie ain't going back in that bottle.

 

[postman]

I am working on a gadget that vaporises drivers on mobile phones,espesh on the m62 when it's pissing down with biblical rain.Hello dear i might be late it's raining and people are driving slower than usual.Pssst from my gun and gone !!!!.

 

[grldtnr]

Although all the evidence to date seems to indicate that tomorrow morning I will (again) wake up in bed and go on with my day. But that’s science for you :-)

Hopefully you will retire to your bed there next night, happy with your day, only to get up next morning, to start all over.
Just be thankful your not 'Marvin the paranoid android!

 

[Dogtrousers]

I am working on a gadget that vaporises drivers on mobile phones,espesh on the m62 when it's pissing down with biblical rain.Hello dear i might be late it's raining and people are driving slower than usual.Pssst from my gun and gone !!!!.

Do you have to be 90 to use it?

 

[biggs682]

I am working on a gadget that vaporises drivers on mobile phones,espesh on the m62 when it's pissing down with biblical rain.Hello dear i might be late it's raining and people are driving slower than usual.Pssst from my gun and gone !!!!.

Trouble is most of them are driving German made cars in my experience.

If your post is meant to be taken literally I would fundamentally disagree with your mother. I'm not necessarily against assisted dieing but the idea that all a 90 year old has to do is press a button is both dangerous and ridiculous.

Imagine an individual having a really bad day. I know I have at a much younger age. Instead of facing life, seeking help one might just press the button. Then it's too late.

I disagree with her as well but I can see where she is coming from.

She has had a rough few years in all fairness and has always tried to be the brick that keeps us all together.

And for her age she is very good indeed.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Trouble is most of them are driving German made cars in my experience.

Mine too, although given my locality I appreciate this may not be a representative sample...

 

[cyberknight]

Hopefully you will retire to your bed there next night, happy with your day, only to get up next morning, to start all over.
Just be thankful your not 'Marvin the paranoid android!

 

[Punkawallah]

Hopefully you will retire to your bed there next night, happy with your day, only to get up next morning, to start all over.
Just be thankful your not 'Marvin the paranoid android!

I suppose you’ll want me to put my head in a bucket of water, next?

 

[Jenkins]

Politicians should have one fitted age 18.

Does that include Parish Councillors?

 

[grldtnr]

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Thanks on posting that, I didn't think of where to look for it!

 

[SpokeyDokey]

My mother has all of a sudden come up with the idea that there should be a life ending button for people once you reach 90 .

No real idea where this has come from in all fairness. Mum is in good health for her age IE 90 in January.

And if she hadn't smashed her hip during COVID she would be a lot better.

Anyone else have any thoughts?

A good idea, as long as it was not compulsory.

I'd go for a lower age limit for the start date. 18 seems about right to me.

If you want out, then you should be allowed to bail.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I think I'd quite like a rewind button but with the pension intact

Edit - and with Jenny Agutter

 

[Electric_Andy]

For something as final as dying, I would expect an assessment/follow-up period of 3 months (to gain a baseline of what the persons cognitive function, moods, quality of life, coherence is), and then the "3 button" consent process could follow. On the 3rd press of the button, if they are assesssed and found to be in the same mental state as the previous 3 months then they could go ahead and end their life.

I think that would give enough time to rule out any false/snap decisions and to prove to the professional "case worker" that it is a considered action with no other influence other than that of the patient. It does seem like a long and drawn out process, but there might be insances where the patient does not have sufficient cognitive ability to give informed consent. i.e they could be mentally/physically/neurologically challenged for a number of months during consent, but had they lived, their quality of life might have improved to such an extent that they would not want to end their life any more.

My guess is they'd have to have something like that in place for everyone, to cater for the minority cases they wish to protect from unnecessary euthanasia