[8mmMauser]

Apropros to the Nat Hentoff words sprinkled upthread, comes a response. These words sprout from one who didn't quite "get it" and portend a dilemma we face a lot.

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Nat Hentoff wrote a piece on Tuesday about the Schiavo Family Foundation. My father was in a vegetative state for three years following a stroke. I have had elderly relatives in nursing homes as they lingered close to death. I have told my relatives that I do not wish to endure either situation, nor do I wish to squander the nation's medical reserve, nor do I wish to wait to be "cruelly starved and dehydrated" to accomplish my ends. Because there is no "right to die" in California, this probably means that I will have to terminate my life myself before it is really necessary.

Carol Atwood

Santa Cruz

State needs 'right to die' laws

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[8mmMauser]

Meanwhile, the words of Nat Hentoff reach far and wide, repeated again here:

In 2001, the Schindler family — the parents, brother and sister of Terri Schiavo — formed the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation to try to save the life of their loved one who, as her brother, Bobby Schindler, said to me recently, “was deemed unworthy of life because she was cognitively disabled.” The judiciary and the press did not agree with that justified accusation that Terri was cruelly starved and dehydrated to death...........

Terri Schiavo’s lifesaving legacy

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[wagglebee]

nor do I wish to squander the nation's medical reserve,

Huh?

[BykrBayb]

nor do I wish to squander the nation's medical reserve

WTF?

[Sun]

Nat Hentoff needs our prayers.