thank you for your calm and respectful tone and reasoned opinion on this matter. i find your personal experience, as a physician who has worked in hospice, especially compelling. you are being attacked simply for the view you hold, neither your tone nor your words have been offensive here. be assured that reasonable people see it that way.
Thanks so much. It's too important a subject to get sidetracked by anything but the protection of basic human rights.
I still don't know what to think, but hocndoc's exposition of medical ethics and her level of experience in similar situations give me something to think about.
I had been exposed to the other side's POV in the trot-through George Stephanopoulos arranged with someone on that side of the argument who was very well-versed and articulate; but I still got the feeling, watching Stephanopoulous, that he was acting politically, trying to "show up" the opposition as a bunch of right-wing, "Church of Churchianity" tent-revivalists and droolers. So I didn't quite trust what he and his interviewee were telling me, and I was mildly repelled by what I saw as smugness around the edges.
I still don't have enough information to decide, one way or another, but as a practical result of this affair, the secret enthusiasts of institutionalizing euthanasia for policy and profit have to be encouraged, I think.