> From: Brian <http://www.cs..edu/~b> > Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 18:30:26 -0800 > > No, don't worry, I'm not feeling suicidal, myself, at the moment. But, > for example, because I'm diabetic, there's a strong risk of me going blind > at some point. I'm pretty sure that that would make me suicidal -- and if > so, I don't want anyone making efforts to keep me alive! (Maybe, should I > actually reach that point, I won't want to die, and that's fine. But > maybe I will. I predict that I will.) When my dad was hospitalized, he was fortunate in that he could choose to die, and did choose to do so. It was just a few months before he was hospitalized that I inferred that this was the decision he was going to make. (He didn't state it explicitly.)