1. What do old folks or disabled folks do when it becomes physically difficult to use a squat toilet? I've heard some resort to installing Western toilet stools. What other strategies are there? I'm at the age where I wonder about my squatting fate a few years hence.
2. One Gokunming poster mentioned a special chair that fits over a squat toilet, can be folded for convenience and camping. Helpful, the poster said, for Westerners who have trouble bending at the knees. Where can you purchase them?
3. From all the camping and backpacking I've done, I must have squatted outdoors thousands of time. Why then so blasted difficult to stand up from the squat position? Finally dawned on me—weight gain, dummy. Oh dear, now to develop a regimen to lose weight. I have not been very successful in the past, hope this time is different.
4. What makes extricating myself from squat even more difficult, is carrying a pack on my back with what I consider daily essentials (jacket, glasses, book, electronics, water bottle, etc.) AND THERE IS NO HOOK ON THE STALL WALL. Sometimes I have wished for handles on the walls so I can pull up with my hands, or bungee cords for a little upward spring. Lately I have resorted to hooking my pack over the corner of the stall door and closing the door. Hopefully pack will stay put (so far so good). But sometimes there is no door, and of course I don't want to set pack on the grungy floor. Maybe I could carry a metal hook to place over the top of the wall for hanging the pack. But then there are those rural restrooms with thick half walls, or no walls at all. What to do? Suggestions from your collective wisdom welcome.