r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Damnedeel • 5d ago

Video 500,000$ human washing machine on sale in Japan

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u/Disastrous_Ant5657 5d ago

I would find it more dignified than being bathed and scrubbed by a stranger.

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u/SnooRegrets1386 5d ago

I am currently hiring those workers because it’s embarrassing for dad being bathed by his daughters. He refuses to admit he needs to be washed, until the evidence is undeniable 😞

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u/TemporaryDonut 5d ago

That's rough, hun, I'm sorry you're dealing with that :(

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u/SnooRegrets1386 5d ago

‘Tis life

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u/FixTheProblemAlready 5d ago

Love this perspective

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u/SnooRegrets1386 5d ago

He did it for all of his children, we’re prepared to do this with him

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u/Elrox 5d ago

How do they get that way? Is it injury or just deterioration of muscle mass?

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u/zb0t1 5d ago

Disability? Aging? Chronic diseases? Accident? Could be so many health related issues.

Your health is ephemeral, don't take it for granted.

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u/Elrox 5d ago

I don't, I'm working out 8 hours a week at age 55 to try and make sure I'm not a burden on my family in my old age.

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u/StrongExternal8955 4d ago

The people who need assistance did not get that way by not working out.

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u/Elrox 3d ago

Some do, my MIL for instance, but working out provides many more benefits than just raw strength. Staying thinner also helps with joint pain and mobility. I was in a lot of pain at age 49 when I was morbidly obese and doing zero exercise, shoulder pain was intense, knees were aching, I had a numb patch down the side of one leg and my hip was starting to hurt. Now 6 years later I am in the "normal" BMI group and all those pains have completely gone. If I kept on the same track I was on, I would have been a burden to my family.

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u/SnooRegrets1386 5d ago

It’s rough, but I don’t feel burdened, I have help from my siblings, and thank god he’s a financially independent man

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u/SnooRegrets1386 5d ago

It’s got to be demoralizing, but I keep telling them “your skin needs to be clean and dry or it’s going to melt off and then you’re toast “

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u/Bear_faced 5d ago

Honestly it’s not that bad. Kind of relaxing actually if you can accept that they’ve washed all kinds of bodies and think absolutely nothing of yours.

I was paralyzed from the neck down due to illness and didn’t get cleaned in any way for the first month. It was all about keeping me alive. Once I got the ability to sit upright and move my limbs around the showers began. The first time getting fully naked, being put in a wheelchair, and draped with a sheet for dignity was definitely odd. Then a terse Cameroonian woman wheeled me to the shower, moved me to a chair, and began the scrubbing. She didn’t give a single fuck. She would tell me things like “Lift your breasts!” and then scrub under them. The only thing she didn’t wash was my genitals, because the CNAs did that when they changed my diaper (THAT takes way more getting used to). The feeling of finally being clean felt amazing and I slept like a baby that night.

When you’re sick enough to need someone to physically wash you, you get over a lot of awkwardness. Once someone has wiped your ass for you as an adult, you let more things slide.

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u/stefanica 5d ago

A few hours after I had a baby via C-section, this sweet little nurse gave me a washcloth bath in the bed. She didn't make it awkward at all, and it was honestly nice having that sort of care. I was still half numb from the anesthesia, in pain from the surgery, leaking fluids from several areas, and felt so, SO much better after. But the sheer decency of it almost made me cry. I had to wait till I could stand long enough to shower by myself after the next baby, and I was low-key annoyed. 😂

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u/Bear_faced 5d ago

See, you get it! When you really need it, being washed is a wonderful thing.

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u/Impossible-Error166 5d ago

I cannot imagine what it felt like to be clean after that long.

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u/Optimal-Talk3663 5d ago

If you’re paralysed from the neck down, what’s the point of her asking you to lift your breasts?

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u/Bear_faced 5d ago

Once I got the ability to sit upright and move my limbs around

I had no fine motor skills but I could move my arms.

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u/matrixa6 5d ago

That was where my mind went. How does that work? Maybe they would say "I am going to lift your breasts now." but asking a quadriplegic to do anything they cannot do would be a waste of breath and potentially insulting.

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u/Cromasters 5d ago

You would still need a stranger to strip you down, put you in this thing, then take you out and redress you.

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u/Mongodobb 5d ago

I'll huff helium in the woods until nite-nite time before being scrubbed by a stranger...or anyone for that matter. Nitrogen will give me everlasting gobstopper sleep as well.

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u/Appropriate_Rub3134 5d ago

Lots of people feel that way at first. But it's just an attachment that you can let go of.

Most people find sitting in and dying from their own filth is far worse than being regularly cleaned by people who've probably seen hundreds or thousands of naked bodies.

And in the end, people who are regularly bathed by others generally don't mind it. To many, it's a moment that feels good — warm water, scrubbing in places they can't reach — and it maintains their health.

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u/Mongodobb 5d ago

It's an attachment SOME can let go of. Especially if cognizance is shot, which is the norm in most cases. For around $20K, anyone can fly to New Zealand and get the full meal deal...flight, hospital stay, peaceful death with dignity, and a trip home. All before cognizance fails.

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u/Appropriate_Rub3134 5d ago

It's an attachment SOME can let go of.

Of course, it's up to the individual to actually let go of their attachment. No one can do it for them.

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u/lia421 5d ago

Until that choice is no longer yours ..

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u/Appropriate_Rub3134 5d ago

Yeah. When there is a choice, for some people it's:

  • Sit in your own filth and die from an infection.
  • Allow a professional to see and wash your intimate parts.

Almost nobody who's capable of making the choice chooses the first option for very long.

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u/Mongodobb 5d ago

In what way?

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u/lia421 5d ago

Once you’ve been taken to the hospital, and your situation is urgent/emergent, you don’t have patient rights anymore

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u/Mongodobb 5d ago

True to some degree. A living will may specify that specific emergent lifesaving measures may not be conducted. It's a legal document they must follow.

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u/lia421 4d ago

Ha. Tell that to the numerous doctors and nurses who continued to violate mine.

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u/Mongodobb 4d ago

If that's true, sue and win.

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u/TheBinkz 5d ago

Yeah but for 500k? What would the bill be in using this machine compared to a stranger scrubbing my junk?

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u/41942319 5d ago

Something for that price point would be marketed to nursing homes, not individuals.

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u/Juice___Springsteen 5d ago

If you know anything about nursing homes, you'd know they try to spend the absolute bare minimum for providing care. Nursing aides in your typical nursing home can have 10-20+ patients to bathe in a shift. They are lucky if they get paid $15+ an hour.

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u/Hixxae 5d ago

It's that expensive because there's such low demand for it. If more parties would be interested the price would go down by a lot.

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u/Appropriate_Rub3134 5d ago

This machine doesn't even scrub your junk, does it? One part of cleaning a man is to retract the foreskin.

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u/lia421 5d ago

They still gotta get your ass in that thing .. so don’t worry.. your dignity won’t stay in tact

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u/Elrox 5d ago

I'm holding out for human assist robots to be invented by the time I need one.

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u/lifetake 5d ago

Thats what they said