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by foobarian 767 days ago
I have every intention to do the same. The only thing that gives me nightmares is to lose mental capacity, which it seems your grandmother was lucky to keep to the end. My aging friend circle keeps throwing around ideas of various dead man switches to cut short any kind of mental decline.
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Me too. She didnt have mental capacity all the way to the end, but her proactivity in confronting death allowed her to take actions and make her wishes clear before she mentally deteriorated.

That said, deterioration from dementia is a whole different beast. Fentanyl seems like a quick way to go, but it would be hard deciding when to pull the plug, and how long you have before you lose the option.