How to die quietly when too old
I am a very old man, soon ninety years old, who served in two wars was wounded and recovered and still surprisingly able. My wife is seven years younger and unfortunately she is somewhat frail and her mind is deteriorating. She spends much of here time talking about the past, often on the telephone, and particularly reverts to the death of he father in a concentration camp at the end of the second war or her brother who killed himself a few years ago in a hunting accident. She is more interested in her childhood than in her children or grandchildren, her most frequent question is to me “Why don’t you ask……..” relating to a contact with some one from the past.
In the meantime I do all the work for the house and living and never get a word of thanks. So I feel that my wife would be just as happy on her own in protected housing and that I would be better quietly dead rather than wait for the inevitable decay of old age. Unfortunately it does not seem possible to die voluntarily do this without leaving hard problems for the surviving a family, unless one has a fortunate accident.
What advice can you offer for people like me?