For months I been a quiet observer to several different blogs and blog subjects. Sometimes coming out of my comfort zone to comment, most of the time reading quietly without saying a word. On some issues I been brutally honest and very opinionated. But on other things I stay quiet.
I was surprised today when I read a couple blogs I follow on a regular basis mentioned "suicide". One has progressed far enough long travel or obtaining the medication is no longer an option by themselves. The other has the needed drugs to end it.
I know one day that the blogs will become idle or just disappear, when they die. Will it be by their own hand or complications from MND/ALS ? I don't know! Maybe they will plateau for awhile and that might encourage them to hang on.Or the diseases will progress to the point communication becomes impossible, thus leaving the blog idle.
I quietly read the blogs today and closed the pages refusing to encourage or discourage either by my comments. Unless someone is in a similar situation or see a loved one suffer on a day to day basis, we will never understand the devastation of the disease.
These aren't uneducated , uninformed or lazy people. Until their bodies started to fail their lives were busy with work , family and activities. Their lives were full. Slowly their independence and dignity is being stripped away by a cruel disease that has no real treatment options and no cure. Their future is bleak and frightening.
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