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MAID (Medical Aid In Dying)

Posted by treehouse5437 @treehouse5437, Dec 18, 2025

Please delete if not acceptable-

NY governor is passing MAID this month or Jan '26 with a few contingency (waiting period, two Dr signing off and written or video consent).

Such a VERY personal choice/subject just wondering how people feel about MIAD being on this side. Not looking to get political in anyway.

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scienceteacher | @scienceteacher | Dec 31, 2025

My father, at the age of 98, fell in a nursing home and sustained a compound fracture of both his tibia and fibula. One of the bones remained protruding from his leg as his bones were too "old" to set and fuse. He lived the remainder of this life, another 7 months, with an un-stabilized compound fracture and was in pain every time he was moved. They actually wanted to amputate his leg toward the end.
I would have been so grateful if he could have been offered medically assisted relief.

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janemc | @janemc | Jan 1 6:59am
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My father, at the age of 98, fell in a nursing home and sustained a compound fracture of both his tibia and fibula. One of the bones remained protruding from his leg as his bones were too "old" to set and fuse. He lived the remainder of this life, another 7 months, with an un-stabilized compound fracture and was in pain every time he was moved. They actually wanted to amputate his leg toward the end.
I would have been so grateful if he could have been offered medically assisted relief.

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I am so sorry. What a terrible way to lose your father.

While it allowed the nursing home to bill for another 7 months, the true word for this kind of "care" is torture.

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