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Is the size of the effect in any of these studies stated in your comments? I skimmed them but didn't see what I was looking for.

Or via non-paywalled links?

Thanks.

I assumed it's more or less what they call a "thrift store" in the US.

Presumably it was meant literally, but the term "charity shop collector" seems to have some other meanings as well which are interesting to me as a non-UKian speaker:

   - A provider of "a charity shop back-end as a service", which disposes of donations 
     received by charity shops.

     e.g. https://live.ctrgroup.co.uk/third-sector/textiles-collection/ 

   - A person who collects things purchased from charity shops.
     
     e.g. "Harding is an avid charity shop collector, especially of sad and neglected 
     ceramic animals".

They seem to be losing money.

On the one hand, if they are incinerating millions of dollars every month, that's an argument that they could easily afford a few more - after all, they are getting cash from somewhere.

On the other hand, if they are losing money, in a certain sense they have not got even $1 to spare.

I don't understand what you mean, or why you wrote it.

>Their revenue was $804 million. It's not a huge amount for them.

They made $804M after all expenses? Or before?

Decades before I had to deal with my mom dying, I read "Grave Angels" by Richard Kearns, and I don't know what more you can say on the topic of accepting death.

The "right now" whereof I spoke is basically any crisis during a quickly progressing terminal cancer after the oxycontin starts and before the morphine.

When a person can speak, and change their mind, and everyone involved in care isn't present at a particular instant or on the same page with what to do.

If that clarifies.

>Plenty of people recognize when it's time.

Thank you for being relatively polite.

All of the replies to my original comment have veered off from what I tried to express with the phrase "right now".

I was alluding to a situation with rapid terminal cancer much later than diagnosis, but earlier than morphine + the end of communication. The fentanyl or oxycontin stage, as I recall it.

I think most likely if you are ever so slightly insulated from such a situation, you might not realize it.

Having a parent die of cancer when you are ~7 may not prepare you for having a parent die of cancer when you are ~37. That is how I see it now.

>It was a much better death than having a lot of futile last-minute interventions.

It's easy to say that sort of thing, so everyone does. It makes plenty of sense.

People don't want to die in the hospital or go through hell in their last days or weeks.

But nobody wants to die right now, ever. No matter what they said before or what papers they signed.

The standard picture, the logic, makes perfect crystalline sense up until there is a choice between going to the hospital right now and living an undefined amount of time, maybe only a day or a week, but longer than the next few minutes.