Old people would rather die than end their lives as trapped rats in a cage

a reply to: IredBafi

Yet, here you are.

The truth is, everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die. A paraphrase of a line from a 90's movie that seems to fit.

They've threatened to kill me and I expect them to fulfill that promise.

And I don't want to go to heaven, I don't like anyone there.

a reply to: IredBafi

Yet, here you are bitching about how much you hate it here.

Maybe you don't want to go to heaven, but you certainly have not bothered to look for the door out of this place.

He has enough skills to post a rant. You saying old people are stupid?



a reply to: Jamie2018

Doesnt mean all old peepa are like that.

a reply to: Nyiah

a reply to: Jamie2018

as I earn my living from the computer

originally posted by: daskakik
a reply to: IredBafi

Yet, here you are bitching about how much you hate it here.

Maybe you don't want to go to heaven, but you certainly have not bothered to look for the door out of this place.

I tried crossing the ocean twice, I was blocked. The second time they brought K9 units and put me in the hospital for a month.

Committing suicide, it's actually a lot harder than you would think.

Gangstalking 101

a reply to: IredBafi
Gangstalking?

OK, enough said.

a reply to: Jamie2018

That's a damn shame isn't it?

Since its most likely their family that dumped them in an old people's home anyways. From personal experience they were already dying before restrictions. It's off the tables now but it's not like many people visit these homes anyways.

I've got a grandad that this virus would most likely kill, his ability to get around got difficult way before this. Yeah he's finding it hard but he also wants to live a little longer and see more great grandchildren come alone.

I feel for people in care homes, I do. The truth is they're either a risk in the first place without Corona or they shouldn't really be isolated from society in the first place.

originally posted by: and14263

originally posted by: Jamie2018
a reply to: dawnstar

Sigh - It was just a matter of time before one of your kind came along.

just do your part and stay away from each other as much as possible.

These Elderly People are dying on the inside - They would rather Die from Covid, and surrounded by family than die alone.

Don't be so bloody stupid.

One sensationalised emotional piece and all of a sudden all old people would rather be dead??!!!

What a completely preposterous and disproportionate response to temporary restriction of movements.

"One of your kind...." What the type of person who errs on the side of caution just in case they DO kill someone!?!?!?!?

Seeing a lot of this lately or maybe I just notice it more. Any time you paint with a broad brush you are usually wrong. My grandmothers both lived well into their nineties one stayed in her home and was doing fine till she had her last heart attack and ultimately passed away. My other grandmother lived by herself and was happy into her eighties she was just having some issues and wanted to move into a senior home and enjoyed the security and happiness of being around friends and being able to have senior activities for years till dementia finally took over. Now we have our Mom with us and she is in her eighties and she is doing just great, she too though has said she'd wouldn't mind being in a senior home but myself and my brother and sisters are having none of that even before CoVid19 stuff and even more so now.Every situation is different

a reply to: moebius
Hospitals are laying off staff, parking lots empty, and beds galore. The only people hurting our healthcare industry are people like yourself willing to lap up everything the MSM tells you.

a reply to: dawnstar

We do exactly what we do with other viruses. Let it run its course and the ones that don’t make it, just don’t make it. That’s life, so you’re going to have to deal with it one way or another. The quarantine is just postponing the inevitable.

I would rather die than see our country go belly up and turn into a complete socialist nightmare. I do think Socialism can work properly in a small country as long as the people have common sense. It will not work in the USA, the young do not want to work for a living, many have been conditioned to want an easy life. There are some out there yet that enjoy working but we have too many who are focused only on themselves in this country and that will never work in socialism. Some of the people who want socialism, do not realize everyone has to work hard and they want a gravy job. Not everyone can have the gravy jobs.

originally posted by: dawnstar
Might help to keep in mind this is just temporary?
Might also help to keep in mind that we can all have a say on just how long temporary is?
Want temporary to end as quickly as possible, just do your part and stay away from each other as much as possible.
Want temporary to hang around for a few more months, into the summer, or into the fall?? Fine, head to the beach and mingle with the crowds till you become a statistic that will only provide justification to extending temporary further out.

As far as the nursing homes and the like. From the little experience I have had with them, they seem to be too restrictive in the best of times. Fully functional people shouldnt be in them to begin with. Only people who's medical needs have exceeded their children's ability to care for them should be. Too many, are there because their kids just dont want to be bothered even though they could.

Is it temporary? Is it?

a reply to: TzarChasm
I'd say it is.

I live in a country where at times a state of emergency is declared and restrictions are placed, not often and not as widely implemented as now, and when the reason for the declaration has subsided things go back to normal.

a reply to: dawnstar

It's so much more complicated than that. I own a house here in the old suburbs of a largish city. My parents are in their 70s and live in AZ in a house they own. If anything were to happen to incapacitate either of them in such a way that I would need to take care of them, I couldn't. My house is a little over 1200 sf, built-in 1949 (giant front and back yards, as was the style). Where would I put them?

I can't "move" to AZ; my SO's career is here (mine is flexible). I can't take them in here (no room at all and dad gets altitude sickness if he stays here for more than a week or two).

We simply don't live in a world where we can take care of them in the way you describe. We would need to make other arrangements. Most of the people I know whose parents are still alive are in similar situations. I'm lucky in that mine have always been very self-sufficient and healthy. Others have been forced to make arrangements like the one described above.

Frankly, those places need a lot more oversight. Their business model seems to be designed to suck all the remaining value out of a persons life until they have nothing and can do nothing about it, than transfer them to a hospice to die.

End-stage capitalism is a bitch like that.

a reply to: lakenheath24

I stopped by our local golf course and
clubhouse this past Sunday Just to take a picture
of ALL the people on the course!

The Safer At Home restrictions are Not being followed here.

a reply to: Jamie2018

Biased sample and heresay utterly useless.
Most old people have lived through wars and are quite happy to isolate for the greater good. Utter #.