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Our loved one went through Cemo-therapy for lung cancer. It later mestastisized to his liver and spine. We started a morphine drip and he never woke. I knew, being in the medical field, what the morphine would do to the human body. We had no more options except that one. He past quietly with family members around him. With dignity and love all around him.
So, "YES", I do support assisted suic-...... Crossing Over.
To you sir, my hat is off. I'm sorry for your loss. I too, was on morphine last year. I beat it. But I have the greatest respect for others.
In theory, I agree with the "right to die". It's your life, and if you want to end you life, that should be respected.
However, I can never support physician-assisted suicide. Medicine in the US is all about money, and death is cheap.
I've had some very bad HMOs, and the ability to kill patients would make saving money much easier. It's a short step from "Stop the chemo, it's just too much" to "Sorry about the leukemia diagnosis. Your HMO will only pay for morphine." Chemo is expensive, and it doesn't always work. A morphine overdose is fast and cheap. Unfortunately, it also kills the patient.
In Texas, hospitals are allowed to disconnect a ventilator if they decide that keeping it on is futile, even if the patient's family disagrees. It has been on the books since 1999, and it has been used a few dozen times, mostly on poor, uninsured patients. I found a story about one case (baby had an incurable disease, Mom wanted the baby to die naturally, hospital wanted to disconnect the ventilator) at The Austin American-Statesman (broken link).
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Many people have strong religious and moral objections to assisted suicide, and they should have that right respected. But on the other hand those that don't have those objections should have the right to pursue it as an option.
funny is that a wide majority of those support the death penalty.
I am for assisted suicide. It's a personal thing. Anyway, either it is legalised or not, a desperate person will blow his brains out if he cannot seek assisted suicide.
Mom wanted the baby to die naturally, hospital wanted to disconnect the ventilator
Um, how was the baby supposed to die naturally on a ventilator? That's not natural. That's artificial life support. So if the mom wanted the kid to die naturally, he should be unhooked from everything that's keeping him alive by artificial means.
If you want socialized medicine, btw, look forward to seeing a whole lot more of that. Cuz it's going to stop being about choice and it's going to start being more about the cost to the rest of society.
Honestly I was agians't it until my Dad got cancer and had kidney failure, lucky for him he is recovering but when i thought there may be no hope I was torn to see him suffering, in his dialysis clinic I see people slumped in their wheelchairs completly unaware of their surroundings slowly suffering and dying, it has made me think hard about this and I feel the circumstances must be right but If that person is going to slowly suffer until death then yes they should be able to end it in a dignified way.
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