I think that I feel worse and worse the more I learn from your family. I am stunned and feel like I've been down this road before. Well, I guess I have. This time it seems every bit as cruel.
You might be surprised (and then again maybe you won't be), but many people on these forums have confided (to me privately) about a family member's death and how it was such a devastation to them. The images are still with them. They have given descriptions of situations much like what y'all have described. I think it has become very prevalent in our society.
Is this the 'death with dignity' we have all been told it would be? I think the 'death with dignity' movement is a false front for the euthaniasts who are ready to dispose of people whom they feel no longer have value.
I'm sad and sick to my stomach. I have no words to console you, except to offer my friendship, distant though it may be. My best to you and yours.
It is very painful each time I hear of another victim of the euthanasia movement. Each situation is as unique as the individuals involved, but they all have something in common.
The euthanasia movement produces nothing but pain, sorrow, and obviously death. I don't know how to stop it. We all work toward changing legislation, getting existing laws enforced, publicizing the problem, and whatever else we can do. But the deaths continue. And each one is painful, even to those of us who don't know the victims. When I first read about Jimmy Chambers, my stomach tightened up in a knot, and stayed that way. When I read his obituary, my stomach began hurting from the strain. It hasn't stopped. I don't ever want to know how painful it is to lose a loved one this way.
We need more families to speak out, like Mr. Chambers' family is doing. But most people don't even know this is going on until it happens in their family. During such a horrific time, the last thing they want to do is speak out about their private lives, to publicize a problem they didn't even know existed until now. It takes a lot of strength to speak out.