• kylie_kraft@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    The story is a bit more complicated than the meme lets on.

    First, while she was certainly very ill after 2 heart attacks, it is unclear if his wife was terminally ill. She was disabled and had mental illness. The husband says that she wanted to die so she left the nursing home. Second, the drug binge went on for 5 days and her condition deteriorated throughout. While she was presumably doing large amounts of meth amphetamines, she also was not taking her prescribed medications. Third, at least in the article that I linked above, the sex occured at the very end and he said that she was unable to speak at that point and she died more or less immediately after. Finally, she died of a meth overdose, and not of her other illnesses.

    I’m all for dying on your own terms, and if this was truly her idea or she was fully on board, more power to them. However, the wife can’t speak for herself and all we’ve got is this guy’s word.

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      28 minutes ago

      Huh. This is new

      Anyways, she could have left a note back at the nursing home under her pillow: “I wanted this” in her handwriting would have saved hin a lot of headache. But I’m assuming she could write and that’s not her specific handicap from the disability? Can’t tell without access to the article.

      • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
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        2 hours ago

        I have a tendency to see most people as so pathetic, they are cute, so pathetic, they could be pets, or deranged demonic beasts. Really hard to have actual respect for humans when I’m feed news like this.

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    4 hours ago

    Sure, you love your girlfriend. But how much?

    I’d kill for her. I’d die for her.

    But would you spend the rest of your life in jail to give her the most fun send-off when she’s terminally ill?