People with terminal illnesses/in their last days should be allowed to have any drugs they want.
2026-04-25 19:38 UTC
Replies (23)
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@Devadander@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 19:52
Life is a terminal illness and tomorrow is promised to no one.
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@Hegar@fedia.io 2026-04-25 20:00
I mean they kinda are. It’s called hospice and it’s when they break open the good shit.
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@HubertManne@piefed.social 2026-04-25 21:15
Drugs should be limited only in regards to they impare people and the activities they do while on them.
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@RBWells@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 21:16
Sure, yes. I don’t even do drugs anymore, and was never really into opiates when I did, but my experience coming out of anaesthesia with a nurse who was remarkably free handed with opiates in the IV as she didn’t want me to wake up quite yet convinced me that is the way to go. Let me just float out on a soft cloud. It’s an annoying feeling when awake and trying to do anything; but as a death it seems perfect.
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@neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-25 22:30
I for one would love to try heroine, but I know myself well enough that I am sure I’d get severely addicted and hit rock bottom pretty much immediately. So that’s my deathbed wish.
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@Deebster@infosec.pub 2026-04-26 00:38
in Little Miss Sunshine, Alan Arkin plays a grandad who practices and preaches that heroin is only for the old.
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@TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 2026-04-26 00:39
that is what an overdose is for an addict
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@chunes@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 03:46
I think you might be overestimating the capacity to enjoy anything at that point
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@stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 05:45
There are definitely some drugs I’ve tried that I would not want to do while staring death in the face. But I agree it should be a personal choice. Basically I think it should be at any point in life.
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@LinkeSocke@feddit.org 2026-04-26 07:24
All Drugs should be Legalized.
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@Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-26 13:03
any drugs they want. How about any drugs they can afford, because that is sort of what we have now (speaking for the US).
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@ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 13:06
Agreed, I can’t wait to load up on Adrenochrome when I’m a little older.
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@HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 13:18
If I know I’m gonna be dead soon, realistically, who’s gonna stop me?
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@socsa@piefed.social 2026-04-26 17:09
Any adult should be allowed to do whatever the fuck they want with their own body.
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@Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-26 17:18
Yeah I snuck in Cigarettes to my grandmother in hospice. She wanted them, asked in between gasps for them. So I did. We wheeled her outside and let her smoke. After that they didn’t let her back out until she died. I sort of understand but at the same time, what is she holding out for? Its over. They treat dying adults like children and I think that’s wrong.
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@Aeao@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 17:20
Hospice has the good shit
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@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 21:51
i agree! i was terminal, uh, something like twenty years ago we should throw a party. some people get all of the luck. what i mean is, do i still get to cash in?
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@WoodScientist@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 23:15
Ok I have an idea. I'm all for giving people the option of assisted suicide, but it's just way too medical and boring! I want something with pizazz! I have a better idea. The US government has been dying to get back into nuclear testing. I say, let's kill two birds with one atomic bomb! We designate a site out in the Nevada desert somewhere. Then, once a year, anyone who qualifies for assisted suicide gathers there. You have all the regular safeguards existing assisted suicide processes have. Everyone there first says goodbye to their families. Then they walk through the gate, present their ticket, and take a bus to ground zero. They arrive at dawn. Through the day they have access to every illegal drug one can imagine. Finally at the end of the day, at sundown, a great countdown is held. As the last light of their last day winks out, a second sunrise blooms across the desert. And everyone present goes out in the most epic way imaginable - high out of their minds and instantly vaporized under the light of a thousand suns. Forget doing this in a hospital or hospice and being given some nasty poison to drink. I want to go out at ground zero of a nuclear explosion! Just put me close enough to the center so I actually get vaporized, not one of those unlucky ones that just gets their skin burned off and has to die painfully over several hours or days.
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@Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-04-26 07:12
a famous one in france a lady was suffering a very rare cancer, the govt refused to give her life-ending drugs, so she got some from the streets, barbituates or whatever and just OD on it.
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@HopeOfTheGunblade@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-26 07:58
We are all suffering from a terminal condition, known as life. So yeah drugs for everyone.
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@pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 2026-04-25 20:15
we're all in our last days pal
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@cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-25 20:40
Honestly if you're over 40 or 50 and you're using it yourself and not sharing it, I think you should be able to legally do drugs regardless. At that point you know well enough what it will do and should be free to decide.
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@SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2026-04-25 22:09
Good hot take. I agree