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So it is better to let someone suffer for years in agony and pain? I had a cousin die from MS; in the last months of his life he would have given anything to be able to end his suffering and end his life.
Personally I applaud the step Canada is taking with assisted suicide - let those who are suffering and mentally competent to make the decision to end their life, do so.
So it is better to let someone suffer for years in agony and pain? I had a cousin die from MS; in the last months of his life he would have given anything to be able to end his suffering and end his life.
Personally I applaud the step Canada is taking with assisted suicide - let those who are suffering and mentally competent to make the decision to end their life, do so.
You didn't watch the video? Many aren't even aware they are being killed.
I can see how that scenario could take place and though I do not want that for me I have made arrangements if it does. The state of Ohio does a good job of informing and encouraging people to get the contracts for power of attorney and DNR. The state certifies and files them and our county hospital has copies.
I trust my wife. If I was ever in such bad shape where I could not walk, talk,eat on my own, and the high light of the day was a nurse ramming a bed pan under my a$$ I would want her to use her power of attorney and end it. That is not living.
I know that the power of attorney can be abused and legislation would have to be well thought out and regulated.
Where is the line between palliative care and assisted suicide? Isn't that for each family to decide? When my mother died from cancer, the actual mechanism of her death was most likely the morphine, not the cancer but should she have been forced to live in excruciating pain for a couple extra weeks of life to satisfy someone's else's moral ideals?
Two times I have been there as doctors pulled the feeding tubes - once from my father and once from an aunt. It is not natural to simply let people starve to death. This isn't about the Bible and love; it is treating our loved loves to a cruel and inhuman death - slowly over days. Our medical establishment does this because the patients show no brain activity and they claim they feel nothing - but they are not in our dying loved ones shoes.
It would just be so much simpler if, when we are of sound mind, that we can sign a statement that we would prefer to be euthanized, when there is no hope of recovery. It would save our Country unnecessary medical expense and it would save us and our loved ones a prolonged and painful end.
Individuals should have the right to end their life if all they are is alive. Being alive is not living. I'm sure if I were in a terminally ill position, I may have family members who do not want me to go, but guess what, I don't care. I don't want to have to be hooked up to a machine for the rest of my life just to be able to sort of interact with my family and friends for a few hours a day, before I grow to tired to even comprehend what is happening around me. I don't want to have to eat and breathe through a tube just to stay alive for a few years confined to a bed. If you have a moral disagreement, I'd say you're in the wrong. Prolonging someone's suffering and reducing their life to just existing is immoral. It's inhumane.
If individual doctors don't want to actually euthanize someone, then of course they should have the right to not do so. I, even in a position of suffering, would not want to force someone to end my life for me who truly is not comfortable doing so. But they don't get to stop me from finding someone who will.
The fear that people with be euthanized without their knowledge is pretty ridiculous in my mind. I'll say this, if we live in a country where this is happening, we have bigger problems than just that. Something big is going wrong. But let's assume we don't live in some fascist hell-hole. Anyone should have the right to sign a document at any point in their life saying that if they fall terminally ill, they should have the right to request being painlessly euthanized so that they don't have to suffer jsut to appease someone else's weird sense of intrusive morality.
You didn't watch the video? Many aren't even aware they are being killed.
Sorry I don't watch videos on the EWTN network. It is a mouthpiece for the Roman Church and since I don't believe most of their dogma, I am certainly not going to watch a video they make available.
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