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Do you really think Brittany heard 6 months and decided at that moment that was when she would die? How dare you.
No. She had surgery, radiation, and I'm sure took every available avenue. When those options did not work, she consulted with her doctors. When it was obvious her quality of life was declining to a point of no return, she took the pills.
How dare you assume that because one person survived, it means everyone has the chance. How dare you think you better about what life with a terminal illness is like than she does. How dare you. I hope in your death one day, you are treated with more respect than you deserve.
I just hope when each of our times comes we don't have the right to die people telling us it would be better for all concerned if we took those meds.
So you would choose dying in pain over a easy painless death? Interesting that you seem to want to deny others from making this choice for themselves.
I can't mind if they make that choice for themselves but why make it the law? Why vote on it at all? Why make it a public concern? People are going to do what they are going to do, no one has ever stopped them.
I can't mind if they make that choice for themselves but why make it the law? Why vote on it at all? Why make it a public concern? People are going to do what they are going to do, no one has ever stopped them.
Well, the obvious answer is that a doctor can go to jail for prescribing a lethal dose of drugs to patient. The law is more about protecting doctors than anything else.
Why someone who is terminally ill and in pain is denied medical help, is yet another example of how government somehow manages to do the wrong thing almost 100% of the time.
Why someone who is terminally ill and in pain is denied medical help, is yet another example of how government somehow manages to do the wrong thing almost 100% of the time.
agree! but the government can perform tests on people, that's ok, they can order people killed and that's ok....?
I can't mind if they make that choice for themselves but why make it the law? Why vote on it at all? Why make it a public concern? People are going to do what they are going to do, no one has ever stopped them.
In the past, many states had laws against suicide. Which, if someone was successful didn't do much, but if someone was not successful, they could have faced criminal charges. While we don't criminalize suicide attempts in this country anymore, we do criminalize any assistance to a suicide. The title of this thread involves PHYSICIAN ASSISTED suicide (it's repeated twice in the title). So in most states, there are laws AGAINST anyone, including a physician, assisting a suicide. And that is why a law that defines when, how and why assistance is legal, and therefore when, how and why assistance is not legal, is necessary.
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How dare you. 
