Dead At Noon -

[Twila]

IMO: To choose when and how you die would be marvelous. This lady is so very lucky to have had that opportunity. I hope that should I need this option it's available to me.

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On Monday morning shortly before noon, Gillian Bennett dragged a foam mattress from her home on Bowen Island to one of her favourite spots on the grass, facing a craggy rock cliff, the place she had chosen to die.

Bennett, who was 85 and in the early stages of dementia, chose to take her own life with a draught of good whiskey, a dose of Nembutal mixed with water and her husband of 60 years by her side.

“I held her hand,” said Jonathan, a retired philosophy professor. His voice is reflective, resonant, measured. “I agreed with her choice.”

Before the shadows of dementia began to cloak her mind, Bennett created a website, Deadatnoon.com, to be made public after her death, on which she makes a passionate case for physician-assisted options for the terminally ill and elderly.
More:
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/...her+than+suffer+indignity/10132068/story.html

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I would prefer late in the evening. Get a full day in.

 

[Twila]

I would prefer late in the evening. Get a full day in.

I'd also want to get a full day in...and maybe just go to bed and fall into eternal sleep.


but I gather with dementia you have to pick a moment where you are aware thinking clearly otherwise you're lost in your prison of mental fog.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I'd also want to get a full day in...and maybe just go to bed and fall into eternal sleep.


but I gather with dementia you have to pick a moment where you are aware thinking clearly otherwise you're lost in your prison of mental fog.

That's my hope. If I get dementia (I'm aware there's some'd say "Whaddaya mean, IF?"), all I want is enough clarity to load up the ol' hogleg.