Dignity is a useless concept

Jamie Wilson's definition comes closest to what I want, even
belatedly, to add to the responses.

Assuming that "medical ethics" and "ethical analysis" are rooted in
reality, I find no other word deals so necessarily, through its derivative
indignity, with being chronically incontinent of urine and faeces,
slobbery, and smelly; with uncontrollable laughing or crying, with being
unable to remember loved ones and friends, with being imbecilic; with
losing ones hard-won personage, by which you achieved some sort of lovable
identity.

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