Retirement is a bitch. Retirement homes are more than meh.<\/p>\n
My grandfather has Parkinson\u2019s, my grandmother has multiple \u201cdark zones in her brain\u201d forgets everything and has giving up on walking since looking at her husband getting crazier and crazier isn\u2019t helping either.<\/p>\n
My dad is bringing them every Saturday for lunch, a bit of TV and family time. It\u2019s now an automatic, long process. It\u2019s more than exhausting, it\u2019s killing all of us to watch a once smart and funny old man getting physically so thin, so stiff and pretty much being a vegetable trying to grab nurses\u2019 breasts and that my mom has to feed before eating. In the rare occasions where he is himself and has all his conscious, he always says \u201cI\u2019m sorry\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n What the fuck is the point of all that. Seriously. It fades out my good memories with him and he\u2019s suffering a slow death.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know what will be my end but I hope to work until the last day of my life and die in my sleep at home. I never want to be put in a retirement home. My dad\u2019s company works on retirement homes\u2019 ways to do a better job since more that 20 years and I know the numbers: there is no way that elderly\u2019s quality of life gets better because there will be much more old folks than people taking care of them. It\u2019s already a mess and it\u2019s NOTHING compared to the next wave, the baby-papy boom generation.<\/p>\n If something like Parkinson\u2019s or Alzheimer\u2019s happens to me, I hope I\u2019ll be strong enough and have the possibility to end my life with a sunset, some drugs in my blood and maybe, hopefully a handjob.<\/p>\n It would be nicer, more human and cost-effective for everybody than what we do today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Retirement is a bitch. Retirement homes are more than meh. My grandfather has Parkinson\u2019s, my grandmother has multiple \u201cdark zones in her brain\u201d forgets everything and has giving up on walking since looking at her husband getting crazier and crazier isn\u2019t helping either. My dad is bringing them every Saturday for lunch, a bit of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}