if you had to live the last 20 years of your life in a nursing home?
2006-09-24 13:12:42 · 17 answers · asked by Wait a Minute 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
We all live a long life-just not in this human body.
And no to the nursing home. I am already a prisoner in this body, I would not want to add to that being a prisoner in a building full of people who abuse and are mostly there just for a pay check and don't really care about the soul and spirit of the residents. At least, not in U.S. nursing homes. Perhaps other countries are different. I wonder, are they? If anyone knows please e-mail me.
2006-09-24 15:03:35 · answer #1 · answered by ontheroadagainwithoutyou 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like many people have already said, no way! I would love to live a very long life, if I could be assured I would remain strong (mentally and physically) throughout that long life, but deteriorating, I certainly wouldn't want to extend my life with a future so grim as what you describe. Nursing homes suck, and I wouldn't like to spend even a day in one...hope that didn't come out wrong.
2006-09-24 21:38:28 · answer #2 · answered by elidrys 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The older I get, the longer I want to live.
If I had to...I'd rather live in a nursing home than, say, in a cardboard box on the street with my few worldly possessions in a shopping cart.
Nursing homes aren't necessarily prisons or mental institutions; it's entirely possible to have a good, full, interesting life there.
2006-09-24 20:24:00 · answer #3 · answered by pat z 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would like to live to be 100 if my mind would stay active and If I had to be confined to a nursing home--better that than tie my kids down with me. When my mind goes -I go!!
2006-09-24 21:58:38 · answer #4 · answered by snowflake 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only if I felt like I had something more to offer. If I could write while in there and maybe publish something.
But not if I was incapable of communicating or useless.
2006-09-24 20:25:08 · answer #5 · answered by ZIAGACITY 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
OF COURSE NOT. EVEN IF I DIDNT HAVE TO LIVE IN A NURSING HOME. BEING OLD EVEN NOWADAYS IT NOT WELL ADMITTED BY THE REST OF THE PEOPLE .SUDDENLY YOU JUST BECOME TO BE NUISANCE AND WHAT IS THE PONT.?
2006-09-24 20:17:48 · answer #6 · answered by hope55 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I'd prefer to live an active life full of adventure and spirit...When they are gone, life's all ready over.
2006-09-24 21:52:13 · answer #7 · answered by prettycoolchick38 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if its quality time and if i get to play poker with my fellow nursing home compadres....
2006-09-24 21:47:22 · answer #8 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nah. No point prolonging the inevitable.
2006-09-25 08:29:19 · answer #9 · answered by Saffren 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably not; however, I don't know what it would be like to live in one. It might be nice.
2006-09-24 20:21:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋