Kevorkian.

Years ago when my father was in the hospital the second to last time he asked me to help him commit suicide.  I assumed he was joking until I saw the new band on his wrist, a DNR wristband.  He wasn't joking, he wanted me to smuggle a gun into the hospital so he could kill himself.  I still refused.  At the time I refused because I had hope that he would get better... and I was in denial.

Jack Kevorkian

Fast forward a year into the future and my mother has passed away also.  My sister told me that our mother had asked her to help in a suicide also. 

Fast forward again to now.  My brother is in a group home and his dementia is getting so bad that we're thinking about putting him into a nursing home that specializes in dementia patients...dementia patients that are also physically unfit.  The only step after that is a hospice. 

I wonder if my brother would ask for help in committing suicide?  Oh wait a minute, he's suffering from dementia and he barely has a cognizant moment where he knows that his health is failing.  Son of a bitch, he's also mentally retarded and at his best had an IQ of around 50 (average human IQ is 100) and he was aware that he's different but not much.  I'm going to see him tomorrow; I have a CHL and I pretty much always carry.  I wonder if he would ask me to help him if he could.  I also wonder what I would tell him.