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by Eleison23 1316 days ago
Your human dignity is not predicated on how much pain you're in, how awake you are, or how able you are.
2 comments

You mean yours.

My human dignity does depend on whether I have to endure the rest of my life pooping my pants, not remembering my own name, and hooked up to some noisy machine telling my lungs to breathe and my heart to beat.

Uhh, yes it is to all three of those things.

If I'm in pain, am delirious, and am unable to operate in the world. I've lost my dignity.

Just because you feel undignified, or humiliated, or useless, does not mean that you are. Don't swallow the lies.