The smell. The humanity. The pity. The warehousing of our loved ones. Catheters and diapers.
Are nursing homes a USA thing?
― Dandy Don Weiner, Monday, 12 November 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)
They really make me sad.
not a USA thing, not always such a sad thing. more of a necessary evil in some cases, but a lot better than dying alone and decomposing in a one-roomed house in the sticks.
― darraghmac, Monday, 12 November 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)
It's a RETIREMENT COMMUNITY!
― nate woolls, Monday, 12 November 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)
i don't care what it is i ain't decomposing anywhere except inside the box i picked out and paid for.
― darraghmac, Monday, 12 November 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)
do they make you sad mostly because you see and smell so many old people, perhaps making you think about what its like to be helpless and dying? getting old is hard all around, i imagine, but i consider nursing homes better than isolation and maybe additional stressed-out family situations.
― one love, Monday, 12 November 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)
yeah, you need to separate the tough facts of getting old against how much worse most of us would be aged ninety and living alone.
― darraghmac, Monday, 12 November 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)
It makes me sad because it gives me guilty feelings about what I'll probably do to my own parents.
I used to spend a lot of time in nursing homes. It was unbelievably depressing.
― Dandy Don Weiner, Monday, 12 November 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)
They are very lonely places.