Comment by RamblingCTO 8 days ago
Agreed. Maybe look into end of life LSD therapy (https://www.webmd.com/palliative-care/features/facing-death-...) and work on the bucket list. That should be priority #1. #2 can be to try a lot of "out there stuff", but don't forget to live.
Lsd works in the sense that it makes you not care about dying that much, the ego death helps.
Combine that with ketamine for a nice anti depressant effect and you got a really good party going.
Why not do mdma also to kill the ptsd, maybe a visit a psytance festival instead of the hospital?
Jokes aside, its sad to prepare for death. I think drugs are not the answer, but they can help too. Depends on the people. Maybe hallucinogens trigger mental illness too. I dont recommend anyone to take drugs.
It's not "drugs", it's science and therapy. Huge difference. And yeah, fun fact: both ketamine and mdma are also used in therapies and are researched for decades now.
Hallucinogenic drugs can cause very disturbing thoughts and visions. One may be left feeling afraid and insecure after taking them, losing any progress one has made toward acceptance of death.
End of life bucket lists are a strange thing, I recall a close family member who entered hospice. They kept attempting to use their credit card to pay for all expenses, dinners, etc.
Of course, everyone around wanted to contribute - this person was not well off, the credit card was not used for much.
It took some weeks later after they passed for me to realize that they knew it was a credit card bill they would never need to pay. In all likelihood others contributions simply blocked them from feeling that they were contributing.