Writer's Block: Every ending is a beginning
If a loved one got diagnosed with a painful, terminal illness and asked you to help them terminate their life before they deteriorated, would you do it? If so, would you want to be present during their last moments?
You know, I've thought about this a few times...Might have posted about it, too, actually...And I'm all for a real facility for medically assisted suicide (for lack of a better term) such as Dignitas in Switzerland. Or Sweden. Wherever it is.
Anyways, if someone I loved was in genuine pain, or their condition was bad and could only get worse, then yeah. Yeah, I'd help them in any way I could, because that's what you do for people you love - you're here to help them make their lives better. Even in instances where their lives can't be better. I'd help them in the vague hopes that someone would help me in the same way if I needed them to.
I couldn't bear the thought of a close family member or friend deteriorating to the point where pain was their only companion and exhaustion and helplessness their only feelings - I couldn't bear it.
If I could help them, then I would. And if they needed me there while it happened, then I'd do that too.
There is nothing that I would not do for the people I care about.