Two agreemens in one day. Be still my heart.
Yes. I totally agree with you. I'm just broken-hearted that Dr. Kevorkian isn't a younger man. He gave so much to us, but he didn't quite get it finished. At least he got us this far: "It is legal in the states of Washington, Oregon, Montana and to a limited extent in Texas" Euthanasia in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There's horror story after horror story about people who suffer in the last months of their lives with too little help from the medical community for pain relief since narcotics prescriptions are soooo carefully scrutinzed. If it's a choice between one dying in agony and your doctor being afraid for his medical license, you're going to die in agony.
What a crime, an absolute affront to humanity, that we aren't allowed to choose when to end our lives with a lethal injection. We administer capital punishment to horrendous people and allow them an easy exit. Us? We've just got to depend on the luck of the draw. Very very sad.
Some moon must be in Uranus or something. <G>
And it's not just physical suffering I'm concerned about. My big bugaboo is my mother spending the last five years or so slowly slipping off her gourd. Well - she was insane to begin with, but she was BRILLIANT. And then she started forgetting things, and it became worse and worse ... and now she's just like a plastic doll whose heart won't quit. She doesn't recognize anybody. She's been wearing diapers for years now.
I can't tell you how badly I never want to know how that feels.
Two agreemens in one day. Be still my heart.
Yes. I totally agree with you. I'm just broken-hearted that Dr. Kevorkian isn't a younger man. He gave so much to us, but he didn't quite get it finished. At least he got us this far: "It is legal in the states of Washington, Oregon, Montana and to a limited extent in Texas" Euthanasia in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There's horror story after horror story about people who suffer in the last months of their lives with too little help from the medical community for pain relief since narcotics prescriptions are soooo carefully scrutinzed. If it's a choice between one dying in agony and your doctor being afraid for his medical license, you're going to die in agony.
What a crime, an absolute affront to humanity, that we aren't allowed to choose when to end our lives with a lethal injection. We administer capital punishment to horrendous people and allow them an easy exit. Us? We've just got to depend on the luck of the draw. Very very sad.
while i agree a person should be able to end their own life under certain circumstances, kervorkian was a ghoul. there are many, many doctors who quietly help patients end their own lives without publicity.
while i agree a person should be able to end their own life under certain circumstances, kervorkian was a ghoul. there are many, many doctors who quietly help patients end their own lives without publicity.
I firmly and strongly believe that we should have an inalienable right to end our life when we see fit.
I know some will view my statement as interchangeable with "woman's body, woman's right" on the abortion front. But it IS my body, my life and if my quality of life has become non-existent, then I should be able to end it, just the same as I would do for a cat or dog of mine that was suffering needlessly.
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I cannot imagine why you would think that Dr. Kevorkian was a ghoul. He was/is a martyr in my eyes. Why do you assume that doctors quietly help patients end their own lives?
agreed. I watched my mother waste away and die due to alzheimers and I refuse to go out like that. I have a pact with a very good friend and if the day ever comes when he or I am senile, the other one will take him on a hunting trip and a terrible accident will occur.
Is it not possible he was trying to get the issue out into the public eye?
What would the "certain circumstances" be?
i feel how i feel........i couldn't stand the man, and in fact, i think he hurt the cause, which is a noble one. the fact is, every person should have a directive regarding their care. a depressed person probably should not be allowed to make that decision in a depressed state. the reason why this isn't allowed is a good one, it's a slippery slope, and everyone won't always have the best intentions. the oregon law is a good one, but wouldn't cover your situation. only mentally competent, terminally ill individuals can opt for legal suicide.
that aside, it must be heartbreaking.
agreed. I watched my mother waste away and die due to alzheimers and I refuse to go out like that. I have a pact with a very good friend and if the day ever comes when he or I am senile, the other one will take him on a hunting trip and a terrible accident will occur.
Please come up with a better plan. I'd hate for either of you to end up in prison.
I have Parkinson's Disease....as far as I know, the first person in my extended family to ever get it. Average age of my ancestors to die, typically of congestive heart failure, aka old age, is mid to late 80's, so I should live that long. But I probably won't be enjoying it much.
I hope to end it all before entering the last stage of my illness. My family doesn't like that idea, so they won't be invited to the event.
It will probably still be a crime to assist another person's suicide, so I will just leave them out of it.
Wait, I just had a thought. I will leave a suicide note thanking my worst enemy for assisting me....
Going hunting with a senile person? Too obvious....Only another senile person would think that would pass inspection. Now, going hunting with Dick Cheney, that could get the job done...make sure you take a lot of blood thinners the week before, so you can bleed out quickly...:2razz:agreed. I watched my mother waste away and die due to alzheimers and I refuse to go out like that. I have a pact with a very good friend and if the day ever comes when he or I am senile, the other one will take him on a hunting trip and a terrible accident will occur.
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