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What, like blowing your brains out and leaving your loved ones to clean up the mess? Having them find you hanging in a closet? Or bleeding out in a tub? What about jumping in front of a train, traumatizing all who have to witness or clean it up?
No, taking a few pills surrounded by your loved ones is sucking people into it.
Someone always has to clean up and care for the dead. That's what we do as humans.
It's only decent to leave the least possible trauma behind as possible, I think. But if a person's life is their own, I believe their death is too, just as much. I'm not willing to tell anyone how to conduct either one.
But it's also human nature to want to be remembered, and we all do things that are bad for attention's sake. Thank God for all those who are able to do the dirty work. They all deserve full respect.
We all get over the shock of a death pretty quickly, gory or not, but none of us ever get over the sadness. That, too, is a part of our nature.
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You don't need a doctor or anyone else to take a few pills .
But a doctor sure makes it easier to acquire those pills. And just WHY should it be against the law for someone to decide when how they'll die and have the assistance of someone doing it by request? It's truly remarkable (and hypocritical) how the 'less government intrusion' rhetoric normally espoused by the OP is so conveniently forgotten by many when it doesn't suit their agenda.
I am against suicide in principal, based on moral/religious grounds, but I would have a hard time saying this woman doesn't have a right to end her own life in as pain free as possible a way. Letting the cancer slowly kill her in a very painful fashion doesn't exactly sound merciful or righteous.
Glad to see that most posters here, no matter their political leanings, are in agreement that one should be able to chose the manner of their own death under such awful circumstances, hopefully one day the laws of the land will be updated to conform to the actual will of the People. Those that disagree with the idea are within their rights to state how they feel and no one is forcing you to take that step, but if for some reason this or another such similar situation came into your life, would you not at least hope that you had the choice if you so decided it was the best path?
makes you wonder, if jack kevorkian was out doing his thing today, would there be more popular support than there was in the mid-90s?
and maybe he would not have spent 8 years in prison..
makes you wonder, if jack kevorkian was out doing his thing today, would there be more popular support than there was in the mid-90s?
and maybe he would not have spent 8 years in prison..
I supported what he was doing and believe he was made to be the scape goat by rabid conservatives that had been after him for years and could not care less about those he was helping. Hopefully one day we will get a little more common sense and compassion in our government and laws.
I supported what he was doing and believe he was made to be the scape goat by rabid conservatives that had been after him for years and could not care less about those he was helping. Hopefully one day we will get a little more common sense and compassion in our government and laws.
it wasn't just 'rabid conservatives' that were out to get him. I supported him too.
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