It’s not a guarantee, nothing in life is. But compared to almost any other time and place in human history? My odds are pretty good, especially as we have legal assisted suicide.
I mean, 60% of Canadians die in hospital (in a bed) and another 15% at home. Assisted suicide often takes place in the home and with the increasing acceptance etc of that, yeah, my odds are pretty decent.
Oddly, as I think on it, 3/4 of my grandparents died in their own beds, with the other in a care home (Alzheimer’s) and again, with assisted suicide I think that’d be 4/4 these days. I do have an addict uncle who died rough though?
Excellent metric of comfort you have there, I see that you truly believe you are correct I was young and naive once good luck with your checks notes " my death won’t be as bad as ancient humans." Do you have any more acts juggling perhaps balloon animals? Maybe you can work a tiny car or the squirting flower into your act? You should volunteer for hospice it may be really eye opening.
Have you ever looked into someone’s eyes as they were fighting and begging for food and knew they were dying of hunger? Not north American “I’m hungry” but actual famine hunger?
Are you so goddamned childish that you’d compare a fucking hospice to a child dying slowly over months as malnutrition rotted them?
Fucking get some perspective you pampered first world goof.
Death is hard. Ours, even in a hospice, are usually so much easier than most have ever been, and many still are.
Edit: I’d like to think/hope this is just a case of ignorance.
Google famines 20th century. This isn’t ancient people stuff, this is living memory shit.
Compared to the deaths that awaited our ancestors, ours are fine.
The odds I will brutally starve to death, die of tuberculosis or dysentary are minimal. The odds that I’ll be heavily sedated are extremely high.
This is kind of the whole point in a nutshell. Yes, I will still die and it won’t be ideal but compared to 99.9% of all people who have ever lived, mine will be so much easier than theirs was. Similarly, yeah, we still have to wor, but compared to most of humanity, damn is our work fine (look how much lemmy slows down on non work hours!) people here sound like children complaining that they’re treated like slaves because they have to clean their room.
“Die comfortably in my bed” - you’re going to have some hard lessons pal.
It’s not a guarantee, nothing in life is. But compared to almost any other time and place in human history? My odds are pretty good, especially as we have legal assisted suicide.
You preceived “odds” calculation has corrupted by your natural human arrogance.
I mean, 60% of Canadians die in hospital (in a bed) and another 15% at home. Assisted suicide often takes place in the home and with the increasing acceptance etc of that, yeah, my odds are pretty decent.
Oddly, as I think on it, 3/4 of my grandparents died in their own beds, with the other in a care home (Alzheimer’s) and again, with assisted suicide I think that’d be 4/4 these days. I do have an addict uncle who died rough though?
Lol “comfortablely” in your bed you absolute obtuse excuse of a man.
A) comfortably.
B) Yes, almost any death I experience will be significantly less awful than those faced generations ago.
Learn how much it sucks to starve to death or die of the plague, you pampered child.
Excellent metric of comfort you have there, I see that you truly believe you are correct I was young and naive once good luck with your checks notes " my death won’t be as bad as ancient humans." Do you have any more acts juggling perhaps balloon animals? Maybe you can work a tiny car or the squirting flower into your act? You should volunteer for hospice it may be really eye opening.
Have you ever looked into someone’s eyes as they were fighting and begging for food and knew they were dying of hunger? Not north American “I’m hungry” but actual famine hunger?
Are you so goddamned childish that you’d compare a fucking hospice to a child dying slowly over months as malnutrition rotted them?
Fucking get some perspective you pampered first world goof.
Death is hard. Ours, even in a hospice, are usually so much easier than most have ever been, and many still are.
Edit: I’d like to think/hope this is just a case of ignorance.
Google famines 20th century. This isn’t ancient people stuff, this is living memory shit.
Have you?
yeah. death is never comfortable.
Compared to the deaths that awaited our ancestors, ours are fine.
The odds I will brutally starve to death, die of tuberculosis or dysentary are minimal. The odds that I’ll be heavily sedated are extremely high.
This is kind of the whole point in a nutshell. Yes, I will still die and it won’t be ideal but compared to 99.9% of all people who have ever lived, mine will be so much easier than theirs was. Similarly, yeah, we still have to wor, but compared to most of humanity, damn is our work fine (look how much lemmy slows down on non work hours!) people here sound like children complaining that they’re treated like slaves because they have to clean their room.