by startingover 25 Replies latest jw friends
So what do you think about him?
Personally, I would like to have the choice to end my life if I chose to do so and see nothing wrong with having a professional help me with it. I have watched several people die and to me it's just plain cruel to put someone through that. We would never think of letting an animal suffer like that but yet some people in this country think they need to jail a person willing to help speed up the process.
I think it is a very loving thing to do as long as there is no hope whatsoever, I dont see anything wrong with it.
I don't think its easy for him to do what he does.
There are many stories of spouses asking the other to end their life.
How much better for someone to do it that is not so emotionally attached.
I dont think I cried harder and was so emotionally drained as when I had my dog put to sleep. Heartworms, and he was only going to get worse. thinking of it makes me teary even now.
He did not have to suffer anymore than he already had. He died with dignity.
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He's a good man, the government should never have locked him up.
He cut through the BS and paid a price. Someday he will be recognized for his humane approach to the end of life. I think that those in the Medical Profession who have developed ways to keep a dead persons heart beating should go to prison.
My mom has said that she wishes that she had never called an ambulance when my nan had her first stroke, she would have never regained consciousness and would have died peacefully. as it was she ended up with a morphine drip in her arm, a cathertar (sp) in her which she kept pulling out causing infection and bleeding and her skin was just droopy on her arms and legs with muscle wastage and she looked like she'd come out a concentration camp.
I hope I grow old and die without having to go through that.
A friends dad died last year at 97, absolutely fine, just got old. His last words were "if i die sue the b****eds!". i'd like that kind of death, he did get a bit ill, his family realised he was going to die soon and he just fell asleep and didn't wake up.
Personally, if I am in a situation where I am NOT going to get better and have a certain quality of life, I would want to have the option to end things once I had my affairs in order. I would like to have family and friends there to send me off... have a nice party... say our good-byes... and then be visited by someone like Kevorkian to finish it. I could give family members and friends the things I wanted them to have, sell my house and give the kids their share of the proceeds, and donate the rest of my stuff to goodwill or whatever. I'd have my funeral arrangements paid for (cremation, ashes turned into diamonds for each of my kids, the remainder scattered somewhere special or launched into space). I came into the world with nothing, and leave the world with nothing.
I do not want to be hooked up to machines, prolonging my suffering, postponing the inevitable. Save the healthcare expenses for the people who actually have a chance to recover and live a full life. I will have had my turn at life, with no regrets about leaving it all behind.
I assisted my Mum (92) pass away and made sure she was properly hydrated through perfusion, for several days, but we didn't want her to be forcibly fed by means of tubes through her nose and throat, as the doctor had told us she was reaching the end anyway, and she left peacefully. Of course you always wonder if you've done the right thing but you have to make choices in conscience and out of love (beware hasty heirs though).
At this point I would like his number
I think the government screws up everything they get their paws on. And I dont want them involved with euthanasia. If you want to die shoot yourself or takes some pills or hang yourself. I work in a jail. People hang themselves all the time. If you dont have the courage than suffer. Government sanctioned suicide is not a good thing. You dont need a trained professional to valadate that you want to kill yourself.
And a doctor that would do harm to a human is going against his hypocratic oat and should be stripped of his license to practice medicine.
