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parsifal:I hope if I am suffering and have no chance for recovery that someone cares enough to slip me some extra morphine.

Salvation: Christ died for everyone's sins. Can't we all suffer just a little in comparison to his scourging, being crowned with thorns and finally being nailed to a cross?? ... Your self-centeredness is showing.

h8in08: I can tell you that I, my wife and virtually all of our family members on both sides would prefer an easy death over living a fruitless existence in a drug induced coma.

NYer:Churchill must be rolling over in his grave seeing that Hitler won the cultural war.

I can see a one off such as someone takes it upon themselves to sit in the car in a garage to die of CM poisoning, but to make it a law where doctors are involved - that is a little too close to death worship. If we are forced as a society to explain away a suicides because a person despairs when they get into an unbearable situation, that is reasonable and understandable. But, for a society to setup an entire medical procedure and pay a highly educated Doctor to perform deaths ... that is a little morbid. It is also too close to giving a doctor a little too much control.

Can we not plan on death before we get there. Can we remember that even a person suffering and unable to communicate is more valuable than Bill Gate's bank accounts! One life ... one lost sheep ... He'd risk them all to get that one lost sheep ... a human is more than a fluid sack with bad breath and a job. A human is a child of God, love incarnate, memories, actions ...

Can we remember that even a person suffering and unable to communicate is more valuable than Bill Gate's bank accounts!

I completely do not understand this. I would much rather my heirs get something when I croak rather than see it go to a hospital who kept me alive in a brain dead coma they knew I wasn't coming out of.

If you are trying to say that human life is valuable, well of course. But if I was brain dead (no sarcastic comments here please!) I would figure that I weren't nothin but the shell and the nut was gone. My value then, about squat.

parsy, who figures death is a part of life.