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A woman with ALS shares her last day after choosing "Medical Aid in Dying"
CBS News Video ^ | 01/30/25 | CBS News

Posted on 01/31/2025 11:48:40 AM PST by Pol-92064

CBS News spent time with Barbara Goodfriend during the final 24 hours of her life after she chose "Medical Aid in Dying." The 83-year-old widow, who was diagnosed with ALS, explained her decision to die with medical assistance.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: care; health; suicide
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We all have to go to the LORD sometime.
1 posted on 01/31/2025 11:48:40 AM PST by Pol-92064
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To: Pol-92064

Knew someone who had ALS. Dreadful disease.


2 posted on 01/31/2025 11:50:10 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Pol-92064

I only allow euthanasia if your condition is terminal and you are infirmed in bed with no chance of recovering. I can be lenient on somebody who is that far into their suffering and the end is inevitable.

However, as long as you can get up and do stuff and live a life, you should try and live that life.

I learned John Tesh almost choose euthanasia in 2015, because he had some kind of cancer that brought him close to death with no way out.

He, fortunately, fought back from his absolute pit of despair and recovered.


3 posted on 01/31/2025 11:52:27 AM PST by Jonty30 (If you ate your twin in the womb, your pronouns should be we/us.)
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To: Pol-92064

It’s still murder, even if a doctor does it. If you think this isn’t one big nose in the tent then you are being very foolish.

Canada is murdering the mentally ill now using this Makthusian ideal.


4 posted on 01/31/2025 11:54:48 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Pol-92064

Soon, this will be mandatory.


5 posted on 01/31/2025 11:55:24 AM PST by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: BenLurkin

Had a teacher in my High School come down with it... obviously he stopped working before it got to the extreme, but it was sad to watch his decline. Very young too, younger than I am today and had 2 young children.


6 posted on 01/31/2025 11:57:29 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: BenLurkin

Just lost a friend from it. Terrible. 3rd person I’ve known to die from it.


7 posted on 01/31/2025 11:58:07 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Nessun Dorma.)
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To: Seruzawa

Hope that one day, you aren’t SCREAMING on a hospital floor from your bed for someone to kill you.

Like my mother, a nurse, heard all the time in the cancer ward.

I had a head injury...the head pain was so severe that I slept with a bottle of opoiods in my hand for a year in case I couldn’t take it anymore.

Judge not, lest you be judged.


8 posted on 01/31/2025 11:58:59 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: BenLurkin

Lost my mom to it. Hers progressed rapidly, for which she was glad. She said it was the worst case of claustrophobia because you were trapped in your own body.


9 posted on 01/31/2025 12:01:20 PM PST by LilFarmer (Isaiah 54:17)
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To: Jonty30

Different people approach things differently.

It is very easy to say what you would do, when you aren’t the person in the situation.

I honestly don’t know what I would do, if I knew I had a terminally debilitating condition, what I would do.

Yes, I know the morality and religious arguments, but just being purely honest, I truly don’t know what I would do. Let myself become a complete invalid or decide I’d rather go out before it comes to that.

Honestly, I don’t care what most people claim they would do, I would bet the overwhelming majority of people, no matter how religious they are, if they are completely honest, would give that same answer, especially if they have ever witnessed someone go through that sort of decline.


10 posted on 01/31/2025 12:02:26 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: dp0622

See Post 8..

Most people who claim they know for certain what they would do in that situation, are just being dishonest with themselves.

Yes, I know they may actually believe it, but its a wholly different when something like this goes from being a hypothetical to your reality.

I am glad you were able to get through and come out the other side.


11 posted on 01/31/2025 12:04:20 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: dp0622

Sorry that should be post 10, not 8


12 posted on 01/31/2025 12:05:00 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

I gave my answer of what I would do. As long as I can get up to do something, that’s what I should do. However, if I’m at the point where I am infirmed on a bad with no recovery prospectives, I’d prefer to have a painless way out instead of suffering by my disease.

My issue with the push towards euthanasia is wanting to make it available for any reason that you want it. You walk in and say you want to die and they strap you in within an hour and kill you.

I have a problem with that.


13 posted on 01/31/2025 12:05:13 PM PST by Jonty30 (If you ate your twin in the womb, your pronouns should be we/us.)
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To: Pol-92064

My mother fought ALS for 5 years. She was a practicing Catholic and never thought of the idea of ending her life. Four of her last years were spent in the hospital and on “machines”.

Our family was with her every one of her days along her journey. We made sure that she had the best care by staying with her.

Medical Assistance in dying is suicide.


14 posted on 01/31/2025 12:12:13 PM PST by Dacula
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To: BenLurkin

My mother died from it.

My grandmother died from ‘total body paralysis.’ (they didn’t know what it was in her time period)

It is not supposed to be hereditary, guess I will ultimately find out.


15 posted on 01/31/2025 12:13:16 PM PST by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon (1/21-))
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To: dp0622

“Like my mother, a nurse, heard all the time in the cancer ward.”

Seven years ago, I was admitted to the oncology ward at a hospital here in the Twin Cities. Thankfully, my stay was shorter than most and I left on my own feet instead of in a body bag.

I never forgot the sounds of people down the hall who were having pain. It wasn’t screaming or yelling - but I remember the sounds and occasional words coming from the other patients.


16 posted on 01/31/2025 12:14:00 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: HamiltonJay

I figure it is similar to “The Red Badge of Courage”.


17 posted on 01/31/2025 12:24:01 PM PST by alternatives?
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To: Seruzawa

There is no need for murder....people can use their prescribed pain/anxiety meds til they’re out of pain..this is what hospice does...


18 posted on 01/31/2025 12:28:46 PM PST by cherry
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China has a mobile euthanasia van. The process is so refined that you are a corpse inside of 3 minutes after entering the van. Lethal injection.

I understand your concern that an act of volition today morphs into an act of coercion in the near future.

19 posted on 01/31/2025 12:36:29 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

I’ve heard that China takes people off the street and euthanizes them.


20 posted on 01/31/2025 12:38:36 PM PST by Jonty30 (If you ate your twin in the womb, your pronouns should be we/us.)
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