Steven White – Kill Me

I just finished this book. Wow! If you are going to read it, skim my next text!

I found the premise totally enthralling – it revolved around the main character having it set up so that he would be killed if something left you in a manner that was below your “limit” of being able to live a full life. For example -  if you got a brain tumor or some terrible cancer or had a brain injury, instead of being left as a vegetable, or sick every day  they would “put you out of your misery”

Such an interesting topic. So many ways to think about it.

If you had unlimited funds – would you do it?
Would you want to live in a vegetative state yourself? Would you want to see your cabailities dimish day after day with a degenerative type of disease? Would you rather “go out” in your prime.

After taking the CPR class and reading this one specific page about the fact that anything over 10 minutes and something between 4 and 10 minutes without oxygen leads to terrible results… I’m wondering if I would. What would be better? How would I prefer it? Would it be easier or harder on the ones you love? Is it selfish?

Let me know what you think!