No, the reason for you to get married or not get married is whatever works for you. It’s your life, and your choice. It’s not any happier or richer than anybody else’s, it’s yours to live out however you want.

No, there isn’t.

That’s not the opposite at all. Producing children so they can “pursue whatever they want” is also an inherently selfish and egotistical gesture.

I see, so they’re all calling up the DHHS and any other government agencies and lawyers to complain about imaginary mistreatment because they’re congenital liars or so out of it that they don’t know how good they have it.

The cited documents work just fine if you bother to look for the updated links at their respective sites.

Spouses are not crushed because their partner has health problems. Spouses are crushed because their extended family doesn’t give enough of a shit to rally around, be inconvenienced and help them. They assume the offending individual will be hauled off to a nursing home, unburdening them of the responsibility.

You were looking for cheer when you clicked on an article titled “When can I say I’ll be alone forever?”

I think a lot more are from people fearing a Trump presidency.

This sounds like a fantastic thing the for the good people at the Cornell Lab of Orinthology. They have bird cams everywhere, including in remote areas, Their livecams broadcast such neat things like nesting hummingbirds in Peru. They don’t need the motion sensor feature because they film all the time.

If you think my statements are inaccurate about what goes on in nursing homes, read it directly from the Department of Health and Human Services - https://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-09-02-00160.pdf. Or read it from the the NIH https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK98802/pdf/Bookshelf_NBK98802.pdf.

Santa gives handouts, he doesn’t ask for them.

Different colors have different flavors, I think. All of them are gross, in my opinion. I don’t understand why people eat something that looks like plastic or playdough.

Before accusing me of having an axe to grind, maybe you should be asking yourself why I’m being called a troll and all sorts of vitriol I have dismissed for having the gall to have a different opinion.

If long term care insurance was providing adequate coverage, why do you think that so many old people are doing reverse mortgages? That only works, if you own a home and that’s increasingly unlikely for the current generation of people saddled with student debt and high housing costs.

I’m sorry, would you like me to spoonfeed you the data from the Department of Health and Human Services directly? Or are they lying ambulance chasers too? Here you go, starting on page 15. https://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-09-02-00160.pdf

I’ll never be free to say that I’m alone forever, only that I’m in a holding pattern until real life begins.

Good for you for visiting her, I’m sure she appreciates and enjoys having you guys around.

I’m sure they make up all their statistics and not source them in CDC links or cases they’ve dealt with. Oh, wait they do link to government statistics of complaints.
I’m sure all the old people who go to lawyers claiming abuse are making shit up, as are all news reports of nursing home abuse. Oh, wait they’re not…

Nothing is guaranteed. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t bother to try to reach out to people and have a family that willing to look out for you just as you are willing to look out for them - not as just friends, but as a first priority.

If most people in nursing homes have families, then nursing homes wouldn’t be one the most complained about services in the country and 40% of its residents wouldn’t continue to be abused because they would have families who would step in to stop that.