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I'm surprised how low suicide rates are at 2%. If I were an old sick person and steadily becoming more of a burden, there's no way in hell I would just leave i
by j_timberlake 11mo ago
I'm surprised how low suicide rates are at 2%. If I were an old sick person and steadily becoming more of a burden, there's no way in hell I would just leave it to nature to decide when I die, or let the profit-maximizing hospital bureaucracy make that call for me. I'm sure some old folk are afraid that suicide will send them to hell, as if God wouldn't understand.
- skeuomorphism 11mo agoWe all say this when we don't have to cross this bridge yet. I hope you're as strong as you say you are when that day comes, I'm rooting for you
- AstroBen 11mo agoEasy to say when you're not yet the old sick person
- j_timberlake 11mo agoYes it is, it's called planning-ahead for the extremely predictable.
- some_guy_nobel 11mo agoSure thing. "When I’m 33, I’ll quit – I don’t want to be a rock star all my life.” - Mick Jagger Also, I've never seen a hypen used in 'planning ahead' before.
- lovich 11mo agoThere are quite a lot of hyphens in this younger than open access to LLM models account’s posts.
- j_timberlake 11mo ago"Too many hyphens!" is definitely the dumbest insult I've ever seen for someone digging through a comment history, holy shit.
- lovich 11mo ago/shrug Its more like AI has made content from accounts created after 2022-2023 difficult to trust even more than the previous error of bots. Its like how nuclear tests made all steel not sourced from shipwrecks have too high of radiation to be used for high sensitivity radiation detectors
- j_timberlake 11mo agolol, I upset you that much?
- AstroBen 11mo agodepends what the sickness is I guess If I get alzheimers or dementia and there's no cure at that point.. yeah I'm out
- fsckboy 11mo ago>afraid that suicide will send them to hell, as if God wouldn't understand i wish God were real and listening to this; he would smite you dead rite here rite now for your arrogance, mortal
- j_timberlake 11mo agowell I guess I just proved your God isn't real, sorry fsckboy
- fsckboy 11mo agomy comment expressed neither belief nor hope that God was real, just that you were arrogant to deny God's existence but still claim to know what He is thinking.
- rsynnott 11mo agoI mean, depends on the god, surely? That would be an extremely micro-manage-y god. Who has the time?
- anitil 11mo agoMy understanding is that in places where this isn't specifically allowed, pain medication is increased in a wink-wink kind of way when the time comes