I do plan to take advantage of modern western medicine in my exit strategy (don't think I need to specify what). We often discuss how psychotherapy is unnatural... Well, I do plan to apply an unnatural, designer approach to my own old age/death/exit. Of course no one can predict how we will really feel and think when the subjectively supposed time comes, but I personally like the idea of doing it according to my general personality, the way I decided and experienced many other things while alive.
Speaking of which, I also have a very intense fear of and aversion to death, which might interfere with my plans... dunno. Reminds me of my dad a bit... he was a super responsible person in his life, but pretty much very practically and strategically gave up and eliminated all of his passions, possessions, and he and I had a long-standing plan, executed, on what to do with the rest of his heritage. But I did not see him as a person easily giving up on life per se, at all. It was an awful, long process to do it with him. He was more content in the end, on his death bed, probably because he was heavily medicated/sedated. We had a seemingly wonderful and peaceful connection on his last day but, again, I really believe it was because of the medications the hospital put him on. I don't think people naturally go out peacefully, it is perhaps more akin to the kicking and screaming of birth.
Both life and death, and the desires for both, are natural. How could psychotherapy potentially tune down, or even in any way influence it? No idea.
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