Thread by @ChrisAlvino

Nothing like waking up at 4:30am bc your dad is groaning so loudly—his breathing is labored and sounds like he's underwater due to how much liquid has pooled into his lungs, and his body is clearly in pain as he's trying to cough with three broken ribs and a punctured lung.

With every groan it gets louder and his body convulses even more. If his consciousness isn't suffering, his body clearly is. Imagine hearing your dying father groaning and grasping for life, even if his consciousness doesn't seem to be there.

His wife of 40 years, sitting alone in her wheelchair, holding his hand, still asleep by his side, unable to wake up due to pure exhaustion having not slept for almost 48 hours straight bc she doesn't want to leave her life partner alone for even a second.

My sister looks absolutely traumatized waking up a few moments after me, hearing what sounds like an actual boar being drowned alive. This is what #dyingwithdignity looks like in the US because euthanasia is illegal here.

I have to sit here and listen to my father slowly drown to death in his own fluids (assuming dehydration doesn't kill him first) because we decided to "pull the plug" after his cardiac arrest left his entire cortex destroyed.

This country is nothing but a giant fucking torture chamber for every medical patient who can't afford to fly elsewhere for care. I'm so fucking furious right now. A little sodium barbital is all it would take to end this nightmare peacefully and painlessly,

Instead, we're being held hostage by this sadistic Christian belief that letting someone "die naturally", meaning with no external interventions, no matter how excruciating and drawn out, is better than painlessly ending their life quickly through external means.

Anyone who believes this is better than euthanasia is a coward and a hypocrite of the highest degree. Full stop. I'm so fucking sick of this country being held hostage by these phony, bullshit Christian values that just lead to more suffering. So angry right now.