Episode Transcript
[00:00:07] Speaker A: Can we talk about death again, please? Death? I know, I know it's not your favorite topic.
It's one of mine.
[00:00:15] Speaker B: So why, why, why would it be one of your favorite topics?
[00:00:20] Speaker A: Because I believe that we are so hell bent on birthing well, living well, but we haven't gotten to dying well. And so we've got this fucking problem where we're tossing people to the side and letting them degenerate.
And. And we should be talking about how is it that we want to end our lives. If we are so hell bent on birthing well and living well and choosing and being all this, you know, building these beautiful lives, why can't we build beautiful deaths?
[00:00:57] Speaker B: Okay, give me an example.
[00:01:00] Speaker A: Well, you and I have talked about if. If we were to get some terrible.
[00:01:05] Speaker B: Terminal, you know, disease.
[00:01:07] Speaker A: Yeah. Or I'm going to. Exactly.
[00:01:10] Speaker B: Malady. Something you'd want to go out in your own way and terms.
[00:01:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:01:15] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:01:15] Speaker A: Bye. Bye.
[00:01:16] Speaker B: Right.
[00:01:16] Speaker A: I don't want it to cost money to anybody. I do not want anyone to take care of me. I have no interest in using resources in order to sustain my life. I don't think it's worth that much.
[00:01:27] Speaker B: Right. If it's shitty, yeah. What's the point?
[00:01:31] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:01:31] Speaker B: Especially if it's for some ridiculous religious reason. Well, when those same people.
[00:01:36] Speaker A: Don't judge. Don't judge. Honey, that was me tapping your leg. Don't judge. Everybody has their different beliefs.
[00:01:42] Speaker B: I'm not judging. Yeah, I'm not judging.
[00:01:44] Speaker A: Okay, but it sounds like you are.
[00:01:45] Speaker B: No, it's not. It's all right. Right to life thing. They'd rather keep you alive.
I don't know.
[00:01:51] Speaker A: What I'm saying is someone's gotta make money off it. Sure. But what I'm saying is everybody has cynic every. Yes, you are very much a cynic.
[00:02:02] Speaker B: Well, I am in this situation.
[00:02:04] Speaker A: I should probably back off with the microphone a little bit close.
[00:02:08] Speaker B: You're gonna back off the microphone?
[00:02:09] Speaker A: Yeah.
Basically what I'm saying is I would like to see. I think it's happening with dying with dignity, those kinds of things. With maid, medical assistance and dying. I think there's a lot of progress in choosing to stop when we decide.
Yes. Is there?
There's, you know, there is a lot of religion involved for some people, and I understand that. And at the same time, I do not believe that we should be suffering like some of us do.
So I'm of the firm belief that we should get to choose how we die. Beautifully surrounded by friends or not. Or all alone or you and I as we've talked about heading out to the woods with our morphine and whatever else are, you know, lethal doses of blah, blah, blah, and, you know, building, you know, digging a hole around a tree so that we can become compost. That's what I be like.
[00:03:13] Speaker B: That'd be kind of cool, doesn't it? Okay, so maid you brought up.
[00:03:19] Speaker A: Yeah. Which is Medical Assistance in Dying.
[00:03:22] Speaker B: Is that Canada wide?
[00:03:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:03:25] Speaker B: So that's already exists.
[00:03:26] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:03:27] Speaker B: You can't go out and wrap yourself around a tree as of yet, but you can get help dying if you're.
[00:03:33] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:03:33] Speaker B: In bad shape.
[00:03:34] Speaker A: Yeah. You have to have a terminal diagnosis or.
[00:03:38] Speaker B: Or something.
[00:03:39] Speaker A: Yeah. Of old age or there's. There's some stipulations, unfortunately. Still.
[00:03:44] Speaker B: And of course, you have to be of right.
Sound in mind when you.
[00:03:47] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:03:48] Speaker B: You have to have two doctors when you sign up.
[00:03:50] Speaker A: Yes. You have to. I do believe you have to have two doctor signatories to make sure you're not goofy. Yeah. But the problem is that I think we should all get to decide.
[00:04:01] Speaker B: Yeah. Now, do we know what US States?
Aren't there a couple already that allow for it?
[00:04:09] Speaker A: I don't know that that would be your department, my love.
[00:04:12] Speaker B: It would sound like to me like something you might have in a Vermont or a Washington state or.
[00:04:18] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[00:04:18] Speaker B: Somewhere along those lines.
[00:04:19] Speaker A: Maybe even California.
[00:04:21] Speaker B: Maybe even California. Don't know for a fact.
[00:04:23] Speaker A: No, no.
[00:04:24] Speaker B: Somebody can let us know.
[00:04:25] Speaker A: Well, maybe we need to do some research.
[00:04:32] Speaker B: All right, well, I'm drinking my tea now and hoping that we're not dead anytime in the, you know, immediate future.
[00:04:39] Speaker A: Listen, I've done what I need to do. I'm down.
[00:04:43] Speaker B: You'Re out of here. The next time.
[00:04:45] Speaker A: If I get smacked by a Mack truck tomorrow, I'm fine.
[00:04:48] Speaker B: Next time it's just gonna be me. It'll be shmoop times one.
[00:04:52] Speaker A: No, no, no, no. It's gonna be shmoopy times two.
[00:04:55] Speaker B: Get it together.
[00:04:56] Speaker A: Until the next time.
[00:04:58] Speaker B: Oh, my God.
[00:04:59] Speaker A: Schmoops.
